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Nichols favored neither the position of the supporters of Medicare nor that of the American Medical Association. He described the AMA's vehement opposition to any compromise plan as "somewhat exaggerated." "Last-ditch conservatism never gets you anywhere," he said...
Goodman's new book is particularly vehement about Harvard. Since the "Organized System" is a "strict top to bottom affair," the University sets a pattern in which grades and other extrinsic determine "who to accept, reward, hire." The archetype of the alienated kid is the guy who "'does' Bronx High to 'make' Harvard and 'does' Harvard to 'make...
...independence with anxiety and even anger. When Britain's Prince Philip arrived for the ceremonies, his motorcade was stoned, and at the independence day parade, mounted police moved in to break up a riot. When the Union Jack was hauled down from the Valletta parade-ground flagpole, vehement boos were mixed with the crowd's cheers. Ex-Prime Minister Dom Mintoff's opposition Malta Labor Party even went so far as to boycott the opening session of the islands' Parliament - in which it holds nearly one-third of the seats...
...such policies and attitudes as those of Cardinal Mclntyre that are driving the more thoughtful of the Catholic laity toward an anticlericalism that is too vehement to be healthy...
...merit Alabama courts had detected in Commissioner Sullivan's case was totally demolished. The First Amendment, said the Supreme Court, clearly spelled out "a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials." This commitment, the court has long held, binds the states through the 14th Amendment, which forbids them to abridge a person's liberty without "due process of law." Added the court: "The Times advertisement, as an expression...