Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They say in politics that purists never win. But for now Women's Liberation is inside the head, and compromising your head is a futile form of dishonesty. It hurts me to be hard, but I have to defend myself against the old needs so damaging to my feminist self-respect. The security the old needs brought is known and safe; the integrity I have to piece together as a feminist is 'out there' and not so safe. I waver between these two pulls trying to root out the sensibility that shaped...
...Your cover on the dollar [June 18] was very impressive, but it gives the impression that foreign countries are destroying the mighty dollar while Washington tries to defend...
...headquarters of Amnesty International from all over the world: political prisoners beaten, shocked, drugged or maimed for the crime of criticizing their government. Says American Lawyer James Becket, who is preparing a worldwide survey of the subject for A.I.: "Rulers of the past often openly institutionalized torture to better defend their power and privilege. Their counterparts today solemnly deny it publicly while they are busily refining the technology of torture and the theory of order without...
Although ethics courses are not widely taught in law schools, lawyers are instructed by the American Bar Association's code of professional responsibility to avoid even "the appearance of impropriety." Many lawyers reflexively defend their profession against current criticisms by arguing, as did one Los Angeles attorney, that "those people had stopped being lawyers. They were either 'gofers' or politicians." Another argument currently heard in legal circles is that governmental scandals are bound to involve lawyers simply because there are so many lawyers in government. These defenses are not very persuasive. Lawyers are numerous in government partly...
...limited to poetry. He was himself very nearly as renowned as "Alan Severance, the nationally famous drinker," whom LIFE magazine photographs "holding forth to rapt pals in an Irish pub." Severance's polar positions are rebellion and awe. "Both seemed built in, he was ready to defend both to the death. You had to have both. He saw damned little of either in most Americans at the moment: just cop-out or sheephood, not independence or emulation. Hyperdemocracy, the sovereignty of the unqualified individual, added into a mass...