Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accused of dehumanizing sex and concentrating on technique at the expense of romance and morality. Psychiatrists and clergymen attacked the project as an invasion of privacy. Masters and Johnson were rebuked for writing a book about sex without once using the word love. The authors have chosen not to defend their books, but Masters does have a comment about this particular accusation. "Can you imagine that [as a criticism of] a physiology textbook?" he asks. "The word love is in Human Sexual Inadequacy. Just twice. On the same page. Find it."* He believes that the detailed study of sexual physiology...
Claiming that the University is not neutral with respect to society, the charter states that. "The HTFU shall defend and augment those aspects of the University which constitute its being a center of humanistic learning and shall actively oppose those aspects which contribute to what is oppressive in our society...
...unorthodox opinion, the challenging idea. Then, during the 1960s, civil rights protesters took to the streets to fight segregation, and the word became associated with demonstrations as much as with speech. As protests have continued to broaden and increase, dissent has come to be used to describe and defend a wide variety of physical acts, including violence toward property and even toward people...
...make sure that Czechoslovakia stayed liberated, Brezhnev brought with him a new 20-year Soviet-Czechoslovak friendship pact, even though the current document was not due to expire until 1983. The most important change was the formalizing of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which proclaims Moscow's right to "defend" any member of the Warsaw Pact against "military or revanchist forces." The treaty also calls for mutual military assistance in case of attack, "no matter what state or group of states" is involved. That provision, which the Kremlin wants to insert in the friendship treaties that it has imposed...
...Elliott Gould is a natural clown; his hands are an act in themselves, and his hair seems to be coiling for a strike. Yet only once does Getting Straight allow him an original scene. At the oral exam for his degree, Harry Bailey is called upon to defend his thesis. The conversation shifts to a discussion of The Great Gatsby, and soon a professor trots out his own thesis- that F. Scott Fitzgerald was a homosexual. The voices grow louder and the arguments more indistinct, simultaneously reducing hero -and institution-to victims...