Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strained interpretation on that term. If academic freedom means nothing more than the freedom of academics to do as they please--to wander off for an unspecified number of years like a prodigal son, commit war crimes or participate in an immoral presidency--then it is difficult to defend. If academic freedom involved the freedom to advance opinions and theories violating the popular wisdom then it shouldn't be controversial...
...Your cover story on Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris [Jan. 22] conveys the false impression that in 1966 I suggested that Brando should quit acting; it includes the sentence "Pauline Kael's dismissal notwithstanding, Brando's colleagues by and large have defended him." My way of dismissing him was to write about him in 1966 as "the most exciting American actor on the screen." to vote for him as best actor of 1967 for Reflections in a Golden Eye. to review him in The New Yorker. Feb. 10. 1968. as "our greatest actor," and, again. March...
...Federal Communications Commission act as it was intended to. as an independent agency of the Government, assigned to regulate radio and television in this country? I do not think that this office was meant to be used as a censor. The President and Vice President seem quite able to defend themselves without outside...
...editorial in the February issue says that the University "did not decisively, commandingly defend Samuel Popkin, the First Amendment, or a citizen's right to be free from government harassment...
...twilight of the lesser gods. Germany could have conquered Russia. She might have overrun France. She could never subdue England. She may not defend herself against them all with America and her utmost strength joined...