Word: unless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more last-minute, personal lobbying than he has done for any bill so far in his Administration, and he thus incurred obligations that he might later find burdensome. Nor is Senate approval of the tax extension by any means certain. A Senate majority probably cannot be collected unless comprehensive tax reform is coupled with the surtax. Nixon was compelled to promise support for a reform bill this year, but whether a combined bill acceptable to all factions in both houses and the Administration can be worked out quickly is another matter. The temporary extension of the surtax expires July...
Viewed solely from Washington, the Administration's tactics appear to many to be thoroughly inept. Factions within the Executive wrangle too long and too publicly before decisions are made. There has been an inability to gauge congressional sentiment. Unless the Nixon voting rights bill, for example, was designed simply as a gesture to the South, with no serious expectation for replacement of the existing legislation, the Administration was misguided to introduce it in the face of predictable bipartisan opposition. On the other hand, whatever the motive, the Republicans can now say to the South that they tried. Indeed, Nixon...
...writers and publishers, pressing home the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech and expression, spearheaded the battle for freedom in the arts. After a series of test cases, the Supreme Court formulated a somewhat vague but consistent philosophy that no material could be banned by local authorities unless it was "utterly without redeeming social value." Charles Rembar, the Manhattan attorney who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill before the Supreme Court, has offered what may be a classic definition: "Pornography is in the groin of the beholder." Though, as Rembar notes, there...
Hardly anyone can quarrel with the ideal of a healthy sexuality, free of false shame and guilt. Yet to judge from the nation's mood, a great number of Americans feel that the surfeit of sex must somehow be contained. Unless some restraints are imposed?or self-imposed?history suggests that the reaction to permissiveness may be strong. The ribald, rollicking Elizabethan age was succeeded by the severity of King James I and the censorious society of Oliver Cromwell. The excesses of the Restoration were sobered by Victorian propriety. The licentiousness of Weimar Germany ended in the austere and brutal...
...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are supplemented by, merged into or replaced by a great One Religion, sectarianism will continue to divide the world and communities into self-centered groups, isolate peoples, use sectarian prejudices for political advantage, and stimulate conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space...