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...hard against Dictator Juan Perón of Argentina. Marcos Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela, and Fulgencio Batista of Cuba. Matthews appeared before the convention in an attempt to explain himself. "We are not supporting [ Castro ], we are opposing him." said Matthews. "We have a different concept of the historic phenomenon taking place in Cuba than most of you have...
Emphasizing the need for increased funds to problem schools, Conant stated, "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy surburban schools and in the slum schools challenges the concept of opportunity in American public education." The Negro student will benefit more from improved schools, he added, than from token integration across zoning lines...
...Every move in the cold war induces a corresponding military reaction and a psychological mirror image," said Osgood, who has pioneered the concept of 'unilateral initiatives.' Each belligerent step calls forth a belligerent step from the other side; thus each camp simultaneously reinforces the bogeyman image of the other. "In this atmosphere," Osgood agreed, "disarmament negotiations seem futile...
Riesman's informality does not disturb these particularly; indeed, several essays are devoted to defending his style and format. But as formidable assemblage dissects the Crowd concept by concept and definition by definition, this spectre of formal rigor re-Words like values, social character, social power are steadily and carefully redefined throughout the book, and author after author sets up a framework to discuss American society...
Science, beginning with Copernicus, has knocked flat the old, literal, three-story concept of the universe-heaven in the top floor, hell in the cellar, the earth in-between. Physicist-Priest Pollard feels that a whole new imagery must be invented to depict for modern man the relationship between the natural and the supernatural...