41.Under the force of this view，it was perhaps inevitable that the art of rhetoric should pass from the status of being regarded as of questionable worth (because although it might be both a source of pleasure and a means to urge people to right action，it might also be a means to distort truth and a source of misguided action)to the status of being wholly condemned.
42.None of these translations to screen and stage，however，dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee，which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan’s three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century，where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babblings about drawbridges and battlements.
43.Calculations of the density of alloys based on Bernal-type models of the alloys metal component agreed fairly well with the experimentally determined values from measurements on alloys consisting of a noble metal together with a metalloid，such as alloys of palladium and silicon，or alloys consisting of iron，phosphorus，and carbon， although small discrepancies remained.
44.It is now established that the Milky Way is far more extended and of much greater mass than was hitherto thought.
45.And Walzer advocates as the means of eliminating this tyranny and of restoring genuine equality "the abolition of the power of money outside its sphere".
46.Is it not tyrannical，in Pascal’s sense，to insist that those who excel in "sensitivity" or "the ability to express compassion" merit equal wealth with those who excel in qualities
(such as "the capacity for hard work")essential in producing wealth?
47.Yet Waizer’s argument，however deficient，does point to one of the most serious weak-nesses of capitalism，namely，that it brings to predominant positions in a society people who，no matter how legitimately they have earned their material rewards，often lack those other qualities that evoke affection or admiration.
48. The appreciation of traditional oral American Indian literature has been limited， hampered by poor translations and by the difficulty，even in the rare culturally sensitive and aesthetically satisfying translation，of completely conveying the original’s verse structure，tone，and syntax.
49.Mores， which embodied each culture’s ideal principles for governing every citizen， were developed in the belief that the foundation of a community lies in the cultivation of individual powers to be placed in service to the community.
50.Only in the case of the February Revolution do we lack a useful description of participants that might characterize it in the light of what social history has taught us about the process of revolutionary mobilization.
51.Anthropologists and others are on much firmer ground when they attempt to describe the cultural norms for a small homogeneous tribe or village than when they undertake the formidable task of discovering the norms that exist in a complex modern nation state composed of many disparate groups.
52.It has thus generally been by way of the emphasis on oral literary creativity that these Chicano writers，whose English language works are sometimes uninspired，developed the powerful and arresting language that characterized their Spanish-language works.
53.To measure them properly，monitoring equipment would have to be laid out on a grid at intervals of at most 50 kilometers，with sensors at each grid point lowered deep in the ocean and kept there for many months.
54.This declaration，which was echoed in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment，was designed primarily to counter the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Black people in the United States could be denied citizenship.
55.The broad language of the amendment strongly suggests that its framers were proposing to write into the Constitution not a laundry list of specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizen-ship that forbids organized society from treating any individual as a member of an inferior class.
56.This doctrine has broadened the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to other， nonracial forms of discrimination，for while some justices have refused to find，any legislative classification other than race to be constitutionally disfavored，most have been receptive to arguments that at least some nonracial discriminations. sexual Discrimination in particular，are "suspect" and deserve this heightened scrutiny by the courts.
57.Only when a system possesses natural or artificial boundaries that associate the water within it with the hydrologic cycle may the entire system properly be termed hydrogeologic.
58. Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
59.The delinquency rates on mortgages for office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, and other commercial properties held by the nation's insurance companies have increased sharply in recent months, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loans could double over the next three years.
60. Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, and create a special non-government organization to take charge of computer security planning.
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