Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something similar to Pettigrew's "rocks" effect had been a central tenet of Goldwater's conservative thesis long before he won the nomination. It was the Senator's contention that a majority of American voters are in his sense of the world, conservatives. This did not show up in the election returns, he said, because conservatives stayed away from the polls when both parties nominated liberal candidates...
...Richard Cardinal Cushing. "I unhesitatingly endorse his John Birch Society." That was in 1960. But times have changed-or so it seemed for a while last week. When he was told that two Birchers had gone on a New York radio program and inferred that he agreed with the tenet that Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy were Communists, the cardinal denied any such thing. "This retraction is long overdue," he announced. "I do not consider this society as an effective way of confronting the international conspiracy of Communism." What particularly galled the cardinal was calling "my nearest and dearest friend...
Certainly the central tenet of the book--that ethnicity defines and will continue to define much of New York's culture, politics, and thought--is true, but only partially so. As middle-class America absorbs the lower-class immigrant groups, ethnic ties will become part of a ritual, a method of paying homage to the past but less and less a guide to the present...
...effort to use this tragedy to advance his own political ideals, has written that since civil rights legislation was one of President Kennedy's most dear programs, we must force its enactment in order to "give meaning to his death." Such a suggestion as this directly violates a basic tenet of this country's political ethic: that legislation be enacted by reasonable process rather than by emotional reaction. The death of President Kennedy has now and will for many decades have incalculable "meaning." He did not die for and because of civil rights legislation--rather, he died because an insane...
...United States seems to have ignored the issue of free elections, apparently from fear of a Communist victory at the polls. Yet such elections offer America its only graceful way out of a terribly embarrassing position. National self-determination, after all, is supposed to be an American tenet. The rest of the world could only accuse us of upholding one of our best principles...