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...discuss a running mate. Asked his preference, Billy at once suggested Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, because of his deep religious faith (Hatfield is also a devout Baptist.) At his Pittsburgh Crusade last month, Graham introduced Nixon to the audience and praised him for his "generosity," "tremendous constraint of temper," and even "his integrity in counting the score" in golf...
...Historian Max Nomad believes that anarchists follow a "daydream of desperate romantics." Man's urge to do away with the apparatus that governs him is obviously almost as old as government itself. It is, perhaps, the ultimate Utopia-the idea of a community totally without constraint. Zeno, founder of the ancient Greek school of Stoic thought and anarchism's earliest forerunner, opposed Plato's ideal of state communism in favor of his own vision of a free community without government. Medieval Christianity was full of individualist sects that held that man's laws necessarily interfere with...
Could it be, Bindrim wondered, that what he calls a man's "tower of clothes" is not only a safeguard for his privacy, but also a self-imposed constraint to keep out people he fears? If sp, a man who disrobed physically might be bet ter able to disrobe emotionally...
Jane M. DeLong, a teaching fellow in Government at Harvard who helped with the study, said the greatest constraint on sex seems to be disapproval of a student's peers. A majority of both males and females disapproves, and those who are engaged to be maried disapprove the most, the report claimed...
...commended most of all the attitude of the students, who chose "restraint rather than constraint...