Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rape is a great radicalizer. If the courts, legislators and police departments refuse to defend us, we must defend ourselves...
...favorite slogan of the legal profession is that anyone who attempts to defend himself in a court of law "has a fool for a client." Yet the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Sixth Amendment "grants to the accused personally the right to make his own defense." It also ruled, in the 1974 case involving the Nixon tapes, that a President "must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending [federal] criminal trial." As a result of those rulings, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme will be acting as her own counsel when she goes on trial this week...
Members agreed that a conservative has more difficulty expressing his opinion in classes than a Marxist. "People are a lot less willing to hear someone defend American institutions than to hear him tear them down with a Marxist critique," Brownell said...
...Ford the city is big and inhuman, and that prevents it from being part of the American community; Beame, rather than equating bigness with community by way of retaliation, cloaks his city in a rhetoric of smallness, simplicity and personality. That Beame must deny the city's bigness to defend it as a community shows that the American ideal of city-as-community (like John Winthrop's city on a hill) is in practice completely incompatible with what cities generally turn...
...with the publication of a long critical letter in the latest New York Review of Books signed by four of his colleagues at Harvard and an hour of mostly hostile questions during a jammed Thursday afternoon talk at Burr Hall, Wilson is being forced to defend many of the conclusions he reached in Sociobiology...