Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...radicals accuse the University of being the lackey of a corrupt, imperialist, racist society. They demand a cessation of those practices which they consider to be key to maintaining such a society. They ask the University to take the lead in remaking that society. The administration counters with the argument that it is not proper for a university to become involved in politics. They see a university as a free area where any ideas are welcome and all are free to partake of intellectual pursuits. They see the radical demands and tactics as a threat to this "free environment...
...Center, for its part, denies that there is any direction or consistency of effect in the research of its individual members. That argument, considered by itself, is probably true; the CFIA has no stated policy line restricting its members, and there are now fairly broad disagreements within the Center on certain popular issues, particularly on Vietnam. But the bulk of the work there, if not monolithic or precisely identical in viewpoint, retains the pivotal assumptions and patterns of thought that have fueled American policy during the past twenty-five years...
...CFIA's critics have analyzed correctly the reasons for the Center's inevitable political bias. Contrary to the argument of the "evil money" theorists, few scholars in the Center would allow themselves to be manipulated like marionettes for the sake of a research dollar-whether it comes, as in most instances, from a private foundation, or, as in other instances, from a government agency...
...HONEST, one must acknowledge the sincerity and appeal of the dream. Desire to flee the temporal world for a finer one motivated the great art of the western world. The inspiration that built the cathedrals of Europe needs no argument as a possible response to theworld. Yet modern man must finally have learned that such a response is wholly insufficient. Art cannot redeem the human suffering necessary for its creation...
Appeal to Anxieties. A prevailing argument was voiced by Kansas Republican Robert Dole, who dismissed the measure as "a shallow appeal to the emotions and anxieties of good Americans, who are weary of seven years of war." He contended that the Senate ought to express its confidence that President Nixon was moving toward "peace with honor, rather than retreat and defeat." Some antiwar critics of the Administration cast negative votes in the belief that a withdrawal deadline would hinder rather than help peace negotiations. The defeat of the amendment cleared the way for easy Senate passage of a $19.2 billion...