Word: containable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always easy to secure agreement among the conflicting viewpoints of commission members. The initial drafts of reports may contain dramatic or extreme statements that are subsequently modified for the sake of prudence. The Violence Commission, for instance, dropped a ringing line that appeared in an original draft: "As the early Christians showed, a prophetic minority sometimes shows more insight than a silent majority." Still, the tendency of a commission is to seek consensus since, without a unanimous report, its members know that their work will have little impact. Moreover, as ancient philosophers discovered, an extended symposium on human affairs...
Junior guard Dale Dover, who has turned in several superb defensive performances this winter, will guard Erland tonight. If Dover can contain Erland. Harvard's chances of winning will be greater...
...belief in economic determinism that Marx himself would probably have disavowed. It ignores or underrates the role played by traditions, value systems and even national characteristics in deciding the future of societies. The concepts that people have of national characteristics, of course, are often mere caricatures, but they generally contain some truth, of a subtler variety than meets the eye. The American devotion to individualism and freedom can be exaggerated; yet the Lockean principles of individual liberty and ordered freedom that underlie the U.S. Constitution and indeed U.S. society are related to the American character and the American ideal...
...director's biggest task will be supervising the construction of the museum's new six-story wing, designed to provide a center for the study of living animals. Construction of the facility, which will contain two floors devoted solely to marine biology, will begin in about a year...
Racial discrimination persists in death as well as life. Many private cemeteries in both the North and South make contracts with their customers that contain racial restrictions specifying who shall be buried where. Last week, however, a U.S. district court in Alabama toppled such monuments to segregation when it ordered an all-white Birmingham cemetery to accept the body of Bill Henry Terry Jr., a Negro Army private...