Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reactionary Republicans experience a "liberal hour," it may well be that radical Democrats undergo a corresponding "conservative hour" each election year. If the obsolete man must electoral purposes accept the twentieth century, the extreme liberal must similar purposes swallow an unattractively large dose of nineteenth century Horatio Alger. In the national conventions, both parties seem to take decisive and conscious move toward the center, leaving on the one flank disappointed Goldwaterites and on the other disgruntled Stevensonians. It matters very little that both heroes have closed ranks with their parties; the "real" Republicans and the "real" Democrats are still...
Goldwater, you see, is a rather tall order for almost any voter to accept. To rebut rather sketchily, there is another side to all these Constitutional questions: Senator Goldwater apparently places little stock in the "necessary and proper" and "general welfare" clauses. The wisdom of the ages did not stop accumulating in 1789, and if a nation is to live fruitfully in a changing world, its Constitution must be a reasonably flexible document, laying down a framework for dealing with problems beyond the foresight of the drafters. Why does the Constitution not mention agriculture or education? Because the twentieth century...
...Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Wilson is not the Democratic Party of Schlesinger, Galbraith and Bowles." Kennedy's three top advisors have led him astray into a morass of "liberalism" and huge government spending, and, if one is to believe the vice-President, America can not and will not accept this unholy trio. Unfortunately, Professor Schlesinger has chosen to reply in kind...
...each time Ayub edged around to Kashmir-where the Indian army holds the populous and lovely Vale of Kashmir and the Pakistanis cling precariously to the rocky mountain flanks-Nehru's hackles rose. To Ayub's suggestion that India by now ought not to be afraid to accept the U.N.'s recommendations for a plebiscite, Nehru replied that the plebiscite would only stir up ''communal feeling"-Nehruese for the probability that Kashmir's predominantly Moslem population, even after 13 years of living under Indian rule, would still vote to join their fellow Moslems...
...hand up and it happens to be against the sun it looks transparent, just like alabaster.'' Ordained at 35, he modestly resisted being made a cardinal. He was so chary of pomp and circumstance that he broke permanently with two of his favorite followers who did accept red hats...