Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations...
...what shall we say about the dark realm of criminality as such? Legal frames (especially in the United States) are broad enough to encourage not only individual freedom but also certain individual crimes. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved lenience with the support of thousands of public defenders. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights...
Therefore if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. It is true, no doubt, that a society cannot remain in an abyss of lawlessness, as is the case in our country. But it is also demeaning for it to elect such mechanical legalistic smoothness as you have. After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting...
...with University officials later this week to iron out some of the remaining difficulties. Despite the problems he has had with Harvard, he says that he would still work for them, given the opportunity, because they are such a large source of construction projects. "Every large university needs a certain percentage of its work to go to minority contractors," he adds. He would like Harvard to let him bid on other projects so that he can recover some of the money he lost on the dining hall and so he can prove his record as one of the 100 best...
Despite admitting that flaws exist in Samuelson's book, Eckstein had some words of praise for the text. "In terms of writing quality and a certain sparkle, it was in its own way unique," he said. He added, however, that he realized that sparkle evoked a "Two-edged reaction" among some Harvard students...