Word: arguments
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...emotional and possibly persuasive argument to many Negroes-yet it could only lead to even greater isolation and bitterness for the Negro in the South. For if the Alabama primary proved nothing else, it demonstrated the futility of minority-bloc voting that only coalesces whites into a far stronger bloc of their...
Time magazine has quoted Reston's mother as saying he was only dissuaded from becoming a professional golfer immediately after high school, by "prayer and argument." Reston, on the other hand, says he was "never really interested" in anything but reporting...
...could take the Selective Service System's Qualification Test, which many high school seniors could pass. The Chicago sit-in leaders held that the university, by not refusing cooperation with draft boards, is implicitly backing the war in Viet Nam. Beadle's nonbelligerent response showed the argument to be embarrassingly limp...
This bears on the major argument of your editorial. While a lottery is democratic insofar as its willy-nilly incidence eliminates the privileges now incorporated in the deferment system, is such a surrender to irrational chance really so consistent with the more positive premises of democratic society? These include the attempt to shape affairs according to the desires of those concerned, and generally the faith that a certain rationality will be inherent in these choices on most imporan occasions. It is not undemocratic in these senses to draw distinctions such as 2-S has attempted; a lottery abandons the attempt...
Those who want researchers to work separately on their own programs argue that the Ed School is in danger of becoming a "service agency," simply supplying its graduate students to local teachers, its research ideas to local schools. But this argument is becoming obsolete. Most of the Ed School's new programs in local schools are ingenious combinations of "service" and research; the Harvard-Boston program this summer, for example, will involve 20 Harvard researchers working with 30 Boston teachers to plan a "model" curriculum for Roxbury schools...