Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extension of birth control runs the risk of dividing public opinion. The Draper report, however, provides a method by which the United Stats can work towards birth control without arousing domestic opposition. Assistance for population limitation programs, requested by other nations, could be provided by this country or by a suitable international agency. So long as men remain men, population will pose a problem-but one that can be controlled...
Taking its own survey, the CRIMSON found a wide range of opinion. Some students thought the graffito was "the finest thing in Quincy House," while others said it reminded them of the "Bick or Waldorf." One critic even threatened to "profane" the work...
With that blunt inquiry, Bishop Pike inevitably dropped the problem at the doorstep of the nation's best-known Roman Catholic office seeker-Jack Kennedy. Dodging a personal opinion of the bishops' policy ("That's my business"), Kennedy burned at being put on the spot. Bishop Pike's question, said Kennedy, "should be directed to all public candidates and to all public men. Do they call up other candidates when the bishops of their faith make some kind of statement? I don't want to be called up every time the bishops and priests make...
...either leave the court or abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other lawyers may write my opinions, they can scarcely write my books...
Last week the school board ruled that Teacher Worley, however competent, "took this matter into his own hands . . . in our opinion, professional competence cannot be adduced as a rationalization for insubordinate behavior...