Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stars, we all know that Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist who ever lived (and died), that Janis Joplin cornered the market on blues, and we dare not challenge their legends. Weren't we all taught not to speak badly of the dead, since they're not around to defend themselves? Instead, we let their sancrosant memories be grappled with and protected by biographers, former lovers and marketing geniuses of all types. And the faces of the long gone past gain the mystique of the unknown--what if they had lived on? --and the privilege of never becoming old, decrepit...
...matter was further complicated when upperclass houses--which were asked to get together and nominate six students to the CRR--refused even to discuss the matter, and when student protesters said they would not defend themselves before the body...
...hardly seems fair that one Harvard student might be warned, while another Harvard student might be expelled, for committing the same transgression. It is equally strange that Harvard continues to defend a disciplinary body that students won't even recognize as legitimate and that takes almost as long to figure out what it will do as it takes...
...other hand, virtually no established academic authorities have come forward to defend the Star Wars' technical feasibility. The pledge against the program, laden with signatures of Nobel Prize winners, comes from those who know about space technology and its limits and who have the moral courage to tell the world that Star Wars is an ethical and practical fiasco...
University scientists engaged in Star Wars research staunchly defend their work, noting that the Soviets are building their own missile defenses. Says Wayne Anderson, a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo: "If we don't compete, we're in trouble." Other Star Wars supporters contend that the program need not lead to an escalation of the arms race. "We could offer to share our technology for stability and tie that to an arms build-down," says Robert McCrory, director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester...