Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like storing hundreds of thousands of facts in a single sentence." It's the principle of the thing. And the principle behind intelligent automata is no more reassuring than the thought of the ultimate machine. Both suggest power--alien, far-ranging, self-determining, mysterious power. It is a truism that power corrupts men. What will it do to machines...
...used to mean nothing but nine times as many Universal Truths as a three minute student film. Novice filmmakers have always tended to overreach themselves. Josh Waletzky and his cohorts did not, and the result is a film which makes one point rather well, instead of running after every truism which pops...
ARCHAIC laws and institutions are often dangerous-a truism that Americans are rediscovering in a rather special sense during the 1968 presidential campaign. They are doing so with the help of George Wallace. The Alabamian is gaining so many votes, says one happy Southern Congressman, that he is now as strong as "50 acres of horseradish." Other Congressmen are appalled at the possible result: the Wallace phenomenon may throw the election into the House of Representatives. The outcome could foil most voters' wishes and upset the two-party system in Congress. To House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, "the idea...
...Republican Chief Justice appointed by Dwight Eisenhower. Nixon has nonetheless succeeded in putting Humphrey on the defensive. Humphrey supports the Supreme Court. He lauds the Kerner commission report, which Nixon accuses of blaming everyone except the rioters and which Wallace terms "asinine and ludicrous." To underscore the truism that neither party has a monopoly on crime, Humphrey points out that Wallace's Alabama leads the nation in the number of murders, and that states with Republican Governors also have high crime rates ("if that means anything"). Humphrey likes to point out that he is running for President, not sheriff...
Protests of this nature, then, are bound to recur. It is a truism that the lack of democratic voice leads to illegal student force, which in turn leads to changes in the University. Neither student power nor student freedom is a guarantee against student force. "It is naive to think that student feelings can be channeled into institutions," one University official remarked recently...