Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNGLE BOOK. Walt Disney's animated version of the Kipling children's classic is thoroughly delightful, and clearly aimed at the below-twelve market...
Inquiries are met with empty references to the "male community," an intellectual version of the "Be home at twelve, Johnny!" that 16-year-olds get from their parents. Behind the parietal regulations, the administrative surrogate for parents, one cannot help but discern the Board of Overseers, waiting to clamp down on any infringement of the peculiar elements of the Harvard tradition that they so disproportionately asteem...
...conferees, asked Johnson to submit a specific random-selection system to the committee since no one on the Hill had yet seen a fully-detailed plan. The White House was silent. After waiting several weeks and still not receiving a plan from the President, the committee approved a compromise version of the bill that included the added restriction of mandatory Congressional approval of any random plan before it could be implemented. The Senate and House approved the compromise several days later...
...President himself knows why he chose to remain silent. If he had submitted a specific plan, Russell probably would have gotten it included in the compromise version. Throughout the summer, even after the bill had become law, Russell offered to give any specific random system "expeditious" hearings before his Senate committee. Still, the President remained silent, except to express his displeasure at the lottery...
...English gentlemen" who thought of themselves as engaged in a more or less orderly "transfer of power," with the presidency being merely the "lineal descendant of the colonial office of governor." In fact, Heren likes the institution of the U.S. presidency because it reminds him of "a latter-day version of a British medieval monarchy," with the Congress cast as the barons and the Supreme Court filling the role of the church. He even goes so far as to suggest that consensus is the contemporary U.S. version of the divine right of kings, and he calls presidential staff advisers "King...