Word: variant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Levenson makes it plain that, sociologist Big Think to the contrary, the best weapons to use against poverty are always homemade. "My environment was miserable," he says. "I was not. Poverty never succeeded in degrading our family. We were independently poor. Our watchword was a variant of the adage, 'Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.' We did curse the darkness quite a bit, but we also lit candles, fires, lamps-and we studied by all of them...
...constitutional provisions would lead "not just to mal-apportioned legislatures, but to segregated schools, a revival of the Federal Sedition Act, and unfettered state control over speech, religion, press and assembly as well." He contends, in a bold generalization, that such deference is nothing more than an "Occidental variant of ancestor worship" and an "incomprehensible denigration of man's capacity for self-government." Self-government means that we, not our ancestors, must rule ourselves...
...Johnson came into the presidency worrying about the wisdom of large deficits and questioning the need for a tax cut, but he was convinced by the Keynesian economists around him, and hurried the measure through Congress. The quick success of the income-tax cuts prompted Congress to try a variant: the reduction this year of excise taxes on such goods as furs, jewelry and cars...
...some 25 other states, say the authors, Texas requires the defense to prove that an allegedly insane defendant did not know right from wrong at the time of his crime. Undaunted, Belli insisted that Ruby shot Oswald as the result of an extremely rare epileptic seizure called a "psychomotor variant...
...courts. Even though Guttmacher offered the far more plausible diagnosis of episodic psychosis, Belli refused to abandon his pet theory-which five prosecution medical witnesses then tore to shreds. Not surprisingly, one assistant prosecutor felt free to play the defense for laughs: "I wonder if they got their psychomotor variant from the psycho-motor pool...