Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, all this promises more crises and convulsions in 1968. The con fusion tends to confirm extremist notions that U.S. institutions are moribund, that the only solution is to uproot society and start afresh. Only the fatuous deny that too many courts, legislatures, federal agencies and universities have grown unmindful of their duty to liberate rather than constrict. Yet in advanced countries, institutions cannot be eliminated; the infinitely complex problems of crime or poverty require organized experts. There is no Gordian knot waiting to be slashed. To yearn for apocalypse and reject the real task-to reform failing institutions...
...spread by taxi drivers and owners of private cars, who raced through the medieval streets with their horns wailing warning. Soon the roar of jet engines reverberated through the night skies; Russian planes were flying ominously low. At 1:10 a.m., Radio Prague interrupted a program of music to confirm the worst: "Yesterday, on August 20, about 11 p.m., troops of the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic and the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic People's Republic and the Bulgarian People's Republic crossed the frontiers of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic...
When asked for confirmation of the report early last evening, Cong. O'Neill hung-up without answer. His Boston office would neither deny nor confirm the report. By co-incidence, however, his office is preparing a new biography of the Congressman for release shortly...
...people are in the process of choosing a new government. By their votes in November the people will designate new leadership and new direction for our nation. Of course, a lame-duck President has the constitutional power to submit nominations for the Supreme Court. But the Senate need not confirm them ?and, in this case, should not do so." Richard Nixon, who thinks that he will embody Griffin's "new leadership," agreed, not surprisingly, that Johnson should postpone all court appointments until...
...national character, a stain that had its start with the first settlement of a hostile continent. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed by democratic means...