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...demanded that the court declare unconstitutional the law's "triggering device," which prohibits literacy tests in blatantly discriminatory Southern states and authorizes entry of federal registrars to sign up new voters. In refusing to do so, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that these "stringent remedies" were "a valid means for carrying out the commands of the 15th Amendment," which empowers Congress to take "appropriate" measures to bar voting discrimination. "Hopefully," said Warren's briskly worded, 31-page opinion, "millions of nonwhite Americans will now be able to participate for the first time on an equal basis...
...made basically for laughs. "I am not using humor as a goal, but as a means to a goal," he says. "The ultimate effect is not frivolity but bitter pessimism." As Critic Leslie Fiedler sees it: "Black humor fits anyone worth reading today. It's the only valid contemporary work." Nonetheless, the strongest critics of blackness are found among humorists, many of whom believe that humor that does not make people laugh is not humor at all. Some of the critics, however, confuse black humor with sick humor, whose chief practitioner has been Lenny Bruce, the man who made...
...deaths among the subjects. The delay in reporting the data on women reflects the fact that female death rates from virtually all causes are lower than the death rates among males; the Hammond staff had to wait for enough women to die to give them a valid statistical sample...
There may be a valid satirical point of view toward Hollywood half-marriages, or even toward attempted suicide. But Natalie, poking her head in and out of a hissing gas oven to answer phone calls, seems unaware that even the silliest comic character has to believe passionately in her own folly. Deep down, Inside Daisy Clover suffers from a similar lack of faith...
...commit its manpower in Asia, and has no sound reason to do so. American troops have thus far proved that the U.S. can fight and fight well in Asia. As for the reasons for doing so, the President says in effect that Kennan's containment policy is as valid for Asia today as it was for Europe 20 years ago-perhaps more so, given the special virulence of the Asian strain of Communism...