Word: truisms
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Precisely because textbook publishers now offer so many alternative methods, the old fuss and fury over reading techniques may be a thing of the past. But the familiar truism remains: for most children, learning in school depends primarily on the caliber of the teacher. Perhaps the greatest danger in the new wealth of reading materials is that it will tempt some schools to spend money on flashy hardware and neglect the job of teaching teachers how to use it effectively...
...When the University is already a stockholder, it need not remain passive in the face of substantial evidence thatthe company is acting in an antisocial way. That is to say, once the University has taken a particular corporate plunge, choice in a sense becomes inescapable; for it is a truism in the financial world that abstention in a proxy contest is a vote for the management...
THAT Wall Street must undergo fundamental reforms if it is to survive as the securities-trading capital is almost universally accepted. Woe to him, however, who tries to translate broad truism into specific truth. Robert Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, discovered the danger last week when he proposed some basic revisions in exchange rules. Though some members supported him, many reacted as if he were ordering tumbrels to convey them to the guillotine. Among the insults flung at him were "panderer," "out of his mind" and "he makes me sick." Bernard Lasker, chairman of the N.Y.S.E. board...
...style hat. As she stirs to leave the bed after a discreet blackout, Robert asks the girl where she is going. "Barcelona," she replies for one of the dozens of explosive one-word and one-line laughs that punctuate the show. It is not a cop-out but a truism that in the end Robert discovers that these casual liaisons are a paradise of emptiness that leave him less than alive. His married friends have been his substitute for life, and he decides he had better enter wedlock with all its unholy terrors...
When the framers of the Bill of Rights guaranteed every U.S. defendant the right to an "impartial jury," they underscored a truism of human affairs-that a people's respect for law depends largely on the law's respect for them. It is an equal truism of U.S. life that nearly all black defendants are tried by white juries, a fact that fuels black suspicion of "white...