Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrust of the radical critique is to expose the University as a class institution, and to crack the facade of neutrality and disinterestedness which the heads of the University must maintain...
...slower pace and with greater care than in previous years, but it certainly did not try to tear down what the Warren Court accomplished," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. The Burger Court, in fact, modestly extended the pioneering doctrines of the Warren Court in several areas. The historic thrust of the Warren Court to desegregate public schools was advanced last October when the Burger Court unanimously ordered southern school districts to desegregate "at once" -a sharp rebuke to the Nixon Administration's earlier efforts to ease desegregation pressures on the South...
...five years and waded through 3,700 federal land enactments, has delivered a report that is at best a mixed blessing. Some of its ideas, such as the creation of a new Department of Natural Resources to consolidate the administration of all public lands, are excellent. But the main thrust of the report is a compromise between two conflicting policies. The commission urges greater exploitation of federal lands for commercial use, while simultaneously paying homage to environmental preservation...
...THRUST of these essays is to redefine pluralism, the oft-invoked rationale for inaction or moderate quiescence, as a disruptive and revolutionary force. Pluralism makes for moral havoc. It means that the state, especially the liberal state, is not the most important arena of ethical life. Parties, sects, and unions have the kind of autonomy which can enjoin members disobedience to the state. With admirable balance. Walzer fleshes out the competing obligations-to the group as a whole, to the other members, to ideals. to civility, and sometimes to revolutionary violence...
...Russia, where he endures the blatant irony of having a huge salad of royalty rubles thrust on him, Bech and the head of the Soviet Writers' Union joust with vodka glasses: "He toasts Jack London, I toast Pushkin. He does Hemingway, I do Turgenev. I do Nabokov, he counters with John Reed." Elsewhere, Bech vainly attempts to charm Yevtushenko by describing his own position in America not as a literary lion but as a "graying, furtively stylish rat indifferently permitted to gnaw and roam behind the wainscoting of a firetrap about to be demolished anyway...