Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book does succeed in recreating the images New Yorkers saw on television and read in the newspapers. Race Riots also (unconsciouslv, I suspect), introduces a new motive, one that at the time seemed unthinkable: for some the riots were simply a release (like a Pogo, diploma, or sycamore riot), a chance to use individual conscience in mass consciousness...
...Suspect Solution. Even if Southerner Lyndon Johnson solves the formidable problem of getting Democratic Southern Senators to approve two Southerners of the type the Fifth deserves, the trouble is that nine judges cannot handle the court's runaway caseload. There are two alternatives: add judges or cut the load. Because some experts insist that appellate courts should have no more than nine judges, Congress will shortly be asked to reduce the Fifth's jurisdiction by creating a new seven-judge circuit court to handle Texas, Louisiana and the Canal Zone...
...getting someone to join a party by telling him someone else is coming in. The need for secrecy was so important that in the midst of negotiations, Roosa even donned a tuxedo in the office and went off to a scheduled piano recital at the Polish embassy lest anyone suspect by his absence what was afoot. He kept a car waiting outside with its motor running, just in case...
...many of the fire-eating unionists of the open-hearth and blast furnaces, McDonald has been suspect from the start. A college graduate (Carnegie Tech, '32) who once aspired to a career in the theater, he was a mill clerk when he attracted the attention of the union's founding president, Philip Murray, with his organizational talents. Murray selected McDonald as secretary-treasurer of the union in 1942, made it clear that McDonald was his heir apparent. When Murray died in 1952, McDonald stepped almost automatically into the presidency...
Perhaps, as Humphrey seems to suggest, the journal's leftism makes for interesting reading but risky following. While there is some truth in this, I suspect the real answer is much simpler: the New Republic's advice is rarely taken because it is rarely given. The magazine doesn't propagandize ideas; it considers them. It thinks. It is not, as has been postulated, the conscience of America's liberalism, but rather liberalism's intellect...