Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from those over-zealous patriots whom we fear do not properly construe either the functions of a university or the character of the evil they are seeking to uproot. When faced with this threat our strongest weapon is found among those academic principles which we feel constrained to defend--respect for the opinions of others. I am convinced that today's Communist hunters are not inherently vicious men seeking only to persecute harmless professors. I feel that, for the most part, our problem today is the result of the misdirection of the efforts of sincere men in the face...
...discussed the character of him as comparable to the artist of today. This artist is seen as "impelled by a fidelity to his own values," a man creating across the chasm of his individuality. "A poet," Cummings said, "is one who has solved the depths of horror to defend the sunbeams of architecture with his life...
...Asia, Formosa has been de-neutralized, the Chinese Nationalists frankly and openly encouraged. But the Formosa decision was part of a larger plan: a new emphasis on training anti-Communist Asians to defend their own lands, and ultimately disengaging U.S. and European forces to build mobile reserves for what might come next...
After a month of heated controversy among its members, the Harvard Debate Council has finally agreed to defend capitalism in a debate against the Boston chapter of the World Socialist Party...
...frontier against Russia, China, Burma, Afghanistan, Iran and India, Pakistan makes sense as a nation only because it feels itself a nation. Its cocksureness could set a subcontinent on fire. Yet one thing seems certain: now that they have a country of their own, Pakistan's Moslems will defend it to the last gasp...