Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ticket, White's conservative candidates swept into the YR national chairmanship just as easily as had his earlier liberal candidates. "The Syndicate has never had a political philosophy," says Groshen. "Its tactic is to embrace the popular philosophy of the moment. The conservative Young Republicans chose to ignore this truism; he saw something that seemed headed in the same direction he was traveling; that was all that was important...
...prosecution and defense to discover whether he had formed an opinion and how it might affect him in reaching a verdict. The selection process, called voir dire, ran through 27 days and 610 prospective jurors before the jury was finally picked last week. It served to dramatize the legal truism that in U.S. criminal practice the voir dire is often more crucial than the actual trial...
...come close to truism when you list their Presidential choices, with Snoopy first. That's as serious as the majority of them get. Snoopy at least has a dream objective. I'm sure Snoopy will get the Red Baron long before TIME gets me to believe it is serious in this year's selection of Man of the Year...
...Penn State, Parseghian's cry of "we've got to have him," and the boy's present C+ average (with tutoring, apparently) all too clearly account for much of why Notre Dame is No. 1 in the nation today. If you want good football-so the truism goes-you have to get the players, regardless of their academic inadequacies. As the Fighting Irish return to football dominance, I wonder what is happening to the Rev. Hesburgh's drive for academic excellence...
This is so despite the fact that autos, which used up 21.7% of steel production in 1965, have not been selling as well so far this year. It once was a truism that what was good for Detroit was vital for steel, and vice versa. This year's performance seems to indicate that steel, while still dependent on Detroit, can do very well even during a downturn in auto sales...