Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Risk and unpopular decisions...
Simplistic Judgment. Such friction might be better tolerated if this were not a time of profound frustration for Britain. Continuing sterling crises, the harshest austerity budget ever, constantly shrinking power abroad, combined with an unpopular and unresponsive government at home-all help to create a mood of anxiety. Powell has given the frustrated British a scapegoat for their rage: "the colored." He predicts that within a generation "we shall have succeeded in reproducing 'in England's green and pleasant land' the haunting tragedy of the United States." He offers the simplistic judgment that "the people of England...
Most important of all, this memorandum will challenge the Harvard Faculty to take a bold position in support of an unpopular but totally logical and just issue now confronting the academic community, nation-wide. It will call upon Harvard to demonstrate, positively, its traditional role of national leadership...
...year. He frankly admits that he was attracted by a pension equal to 75% of his salary. But Battle has proved to be more than a mere machine politician putting in time on the bench while he waits to retire. He has been a courageous judge. In one highly unpopular decision, he dismissed an indictment against a Memphis theater manager who had been charged with possessing and planning to screen a French film entitled I Spit on Your Grave, which showed nude love-making by interracial couples. Battle found the state's obscenity law unconstitutional because it failed...
...Most of all, this memorandum will challenge the Harvard Faculty to take a bold position in support of an unpopular but totally logical and just issue now confronting the academic community, nationwide. It will call upon Harvard to demonstrate positively its traditional role of national leadership." Dept. of the Army, Memorandum...