Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's choice of quotations was rather enlightening in view of the criticism he has been getting from campus and column-writing armchair generals about his conduct of the Vietnamese war and the Dominican crisis...
...problems, recently sent me for my desk a quotation from a Roman consul back in 168 B.C." The consul was Lucius Aemilius Paulus, speaking to the Roman Senate, which had picked him to lead Rome's legions in the Macedonian war, then heaped criticism upon his conduct of that war. Said Paulus: "I am not one of those who think that commanders ought at no time to receive advice; on the contrary, 1 should deem that man more proud than wise who regulated every proceeding by the standard of his own single judgment...
...Harry Wainwright pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court last March, considering a censorship case involving the Danish film A Stranger Knocks, ruled that the acts of sexual intercourse semi-depicted on the screen were not necessarily obscene, and further insisted that the First Amendment applied to freedom of conduct and expression as well as speech. An "expert witness" duly testified that the performance, "applying contemporary standards of the average person," was not "of prurient interest." The judge agreed...
...police raided two North Beach nightclubs, the Condor and the Off-Broadway, and dragged both proprietors into court. The Off-Broadway, which offers topless waitresses along with such name performers as Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton and Trini Lopez, was accused of operating "a lewd and obscene exhibition" and of "conduct outraging public decency...
Amid the waves of campus unrest rolling across the U.S., the University of Maryland was a sea of tranquillity; not a picket had been visible on campus all year. Properly impressed, Maryland President Wilson H. Elkins last month commended his 22,000 students for "their orderly conduct and constructive criticism," and deplored "the small groups" at other campuses, "which flout regulations, oppose any authority and confuse freedom with license to do as they wish...