Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the constitution protects the expression of even the most reprehensible ideas, most constitutional scholars do not agree. Insists University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "One of the functions of the First Amendment is to provide a safety valve, to allow people a chance to blow off steam." Concerning Marquette Park, Northwestern University Law Professor Nathaniel Nathanson says flatly: "The coalition is clearly entitled to march, and the city is entitled to enough notice to prepare...
...time to give a most unprincess-like howl. German-born Queen Silvia, 33, is breast-feeding her daughter and hopes, she says, to give Victoria "as natural a childhood as possible." Meanwhile, members of Sweden's Parliament are preparing a recommendation that the constitution be changed to allow a female succession to the throne. Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin is also speaking out for the change. His sentiment: "Monarchy for both sexes...
They eventually got that bulletin. In 1974 Sulzberger extracted an agreement from his printers to allow gradual automation in return for lifetime job security for those then working. A born tinkerer, Sulzberger threw himself into the task of replacing the Times's clacking linotypes and other antiquated production contraptions with computerized equipment. "You just wouldn't believe it," says Sulzberger of the pre-electronic days. "The composing-room staff used to measure the amount of classified ads with a string...
...call me mad, rash, incorrigible, proud, irreconcilable, deluded and all the rest," Frederick William Rolfe once wrote to a critic. "But you must allow me to lead my life upon that higher and uncrowded plane where supernatural influences work unchecked . .. Have you not realized yet that it is not an ordinary, but an extraordinary man with whom you have to deal...
...such male bluster works only if females allow it to work. Among many monogamous birds, a female will mate only with a male willing to build nests before copulating. Presumably, human females have much more power to breed machismo out of the population. At cocktail parties, women often ask Anthropologist Irven DeVore when men will give up machismo. His immodest-but sociobiologically correct-reply: when women like you stop selecting high-success, strutting men like me. "Males," says DeVore, "are a vast breeding experiment run by females...