Word: defend
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Each of five contestants is required to read and defend a paper before a panel of faculty members. Topics for this year's competition include "Apology II: A Comparison of Socrates and J. Robert Oppenheimer" and "Henry VII: Bacon's From of Machiavellianism...
...grin and bear it as Ellis went over their heads to Curtice with his problems. When Kudner fell into disfavor with Buick, other division heads called an open season on the agency, aware that Curtice, who is scheduled to retire next year, would be hard pressed to defend it. As of last week, Kudner had only four small G.M. accounts worth some $6.000,000 left-Fisher Body, Allison Engine, Cleveland Diesel, Detroit Diesel. Madison Avenue was taking bets on which would be the next to go, and who would pick up Frigidaire and G.M.C. Truck. One leading possibility: McCann-Erickson...
Clergymen, politicians, resistance heroes came forward to defend Pastor Mathiot. Said Charles Westphal, vice president of the French Protestant Federation and a veteran of the wartime French underground: "Mathiot's action is justified by the prevalence of torture in Algeria ... He obeyed the highest moral law there is. His act is symptomatic of the great unrest in French consciences today." Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home...
With Dewey's world so demonstrably in tatters, one might think the educationists would run up the white flag. Far from it. Entrenched in public school administrations, they defend with the adhesiveness of a band of brothers every article of their gobbledygook canons. In Holland, Mich, the Christian' High School, a respected institution of impeccable academic standards, has recently been denied accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools because it refused to dilute its academic standards with shop and cooking courses. A sample of the canons by which such schools are judged...
...debaters from Mercer University, Macon, Ga. last week began a six-month invasion of northern colleges and universities to defend the proposition: Resolved, That racial segregation in the South should be maintained. Seniors Beverley Bates and L. Martelle Layfield faced debaters from Princeton's American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the U.S.'s oldest collegiate debating group, amiably insisted beforehand that they were not making the tour as "Confederate knights in shining armor," but as private citizens interested in finding "a free arena of discussion where reasonable people can achieve better understanding." Seemingly at odds with the proposition they were...