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The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
He returned to Germany for the first time in 1953, where he has since conducted in Cologne, Frankfurt, and Berlin.
according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.
We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.
It had a bucolic atmosphere that it has lost long since.
Also, since the man questioned feels a strong compulsion to answer ( and thereby avoid the consequences of being thought queer ) the question has assumed some measurable properties of a command.
The novelist who has been badly baptized in psychoanalysis often gives us the impression that since all men must have an Oedipus complex all men must have the same faces.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.
The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.
The book, published in 1927, has been selling steadily ever since.
Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.
This rather detached attitude toward life's encumbrances has seemed to be the dominant trait in Mercer's personality ever since.
It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.
At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.
But since 1945, Sam Spade has undergone a metamorphosis ; ;
But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.
Less than half the sum has been spent, since the Interama board pinched pennies during that period of painstaking negotiations.
Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.
The crisis has been renewed since then but the confusion has hardly been compounded.

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The IETF has striven to hold the meetings near where most of the IETF volunteers are located.
Plato was therefore a metaphysical and epistemological dualist, an outlook that modern idealism has striven to avoid: Plato's thought cannot therefore be counted as idealist in the modern sense.
For example, Stuart Hall has striven to combine many topic areas of study, such as interpersonal relationships and the influence of the media.
The baby sister of the " precious Jackson clan ", Janet Jackson has striven to distance her professional career from that of her older brother Michael and the rest of the Jackson family.
Traditionally, engineering has striven to solve the non-linear system problem while bearing in mind that for small perturbations, most non-linear systems can be approximated with linear systems significantly simplifying the analysis.
While Bhutan sees its destiny as being closely linked with that of India, for which reason it strives to promote excellent relations with it, it has also quietly striven to assert its sovereignty at the same time.
Following the ideas of his Academic predecessors, he viewed the good as that which should be striven after for itself, that is, which has value in itself, while the bad is the opposite of this.
James mocks the author on the grounds that he exemplifies the then current school of medical materialism, stating that Nordau " has striven to impugn the value of works of genius in a wholesale way ( such works of contemporary art, namely, as he himself is unable to enjoy, and they are many ) by using medical arguments.
Ebony has striven always to address African-American issues, personalities and interests in a positive and self-affirming manner.
He is a leader of his village, and he has accomplished a position in his society for which he has striven all his life.
The main objection to the Museum's role in answering the letters was the prosaic fact that the number 221B bestowed on the Museum by the Council was out of sequence with other numbers in the street: an issue that has since vexed local bureaucrats, who have striven for years to keep street numbers in sequence.
There is a large amount of infrastructure in the area, and many small cabins and chalets in out of the way places, yet the area has striven to keep a natural feel while maintaining the modern conveniences and comforts.
As a Georgia Mason noted, the original local lodge rules written by Prince Hall and his followers in the late 18th century were the first set of regulations drafted by colored men for self government in the United States and Masonry ever since has striven to teach its members ‘ the fundamentals of central government ’ which is the basis of American life .” After nearly two centuries of controversy, the Grand Lodge of England was asked to decide the matter of Prince Hall Masonic legitimacy.
The municipal government has striven to convert the coal-mining tradition into a tourist attraction as much as possible.
He has thus striven to find the real Ramunes to control the Dark Knight.
La Cité collégiale has always striven to offer practical training programs, adapted to the need of the labour market and aimed at widening the numbers of specialized workers in Ontario, in the hopes of contributing to the economic well-being of the province.
Since then, the school has striven tirelessly in pursuit of excellence in management education. It pursues four areas of academic activity: teaching, training, research and consultancy.
Since 1992, he has striven to reform the Chinese judicial system.
Greene has striven for balanced treatment of the controversial topics.
Sir George Campbell, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal from 1871-1874, intended “ to render the heads of districts no longer the drudges of many departments and masters of none, but in fact the general controlling authority over all departments in each district ... he has, therefore, striven to make the Magistrate-Collector of a great Bengal district, generally comprising one and a half to two and a half millions of inhabitants, the real executive chief and administrator of the tract of county committed to him, and supreme over everyone and everything except the proceedings of the Courts of Justice.
Thus, each person is believed to be inherently equal and ranks exist because a person has striven to obtain “ wisdom, knowledge ” and “ understanding ” and has risen to their rank via their own merit.
Festember has continually striven to, and succeeded in, providing an opportunity to youth all around the globe to showcase their talent and break social, economical and geographical demographic borders.

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