Word: defender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quad houses, to make them as indistinguishable from other Houses as possible. If the same program of social engineering were proposed for Kirkland House, no doubt its residents would be equally upset. If Quad residents sometimes seem overly defensive, perhaps it is because we always end up having to defend. If your House lacked physical facilities, geographic proximity, and most of all, respectability within the Harvard/Radcliffe housing system--if the only things that made living in your House worthwhile were the 1:1 and four-class environment--wouldn't you resist any attempt to take these things away from...
...lack of confidence. He is far less inclined to run around trying to please people, more inclined to disagree, even sharply. A Humphrey autobiography to be published in April is uncharacteristically harsh on associates like Lyndon Johnson, Senator Abraham Ribicoff and Political Operator Jesse Unruh. He continues to defend big government, even though his aides warn him that such a position leaves him far out of step with the mood of the country. Last week at a Minneapolis luncheon for retired federal employees, the Senator pounded away at his theme. "Any politician who tells you we need less government...
Though there is no major international war now, a number of minor and civil conflicts are disturbing the peace. British and Icelandic gunboats are standing by to defend disputed cod fishing rights in the North Atlantic. Lebanon and Angola seethe with civil war. Indonesia presses its offensive against the Portuguese colony of East Timor. Argentina is plagued with terrorism. The occasions, technology and stratagems of war continue to multiply; the rudiments of peacemaking, this Christmas as ever, remain elusive...
...British Museum reading room by multiplying local libraries, so the necessity for the Metropolitan remains: a place where a very large deposit of cultural evidence can be inspected and compared in depth at the best possible level of aesthetic quality. The role of such a collection is to defend us against one of the great American vices-provincialism in time. And so-floreat! · Rober Hughes
...more salient examples of Peretz's sense of priorities, he gave Theodore Draper six pages in one issue to attack Noam Chomsky's book, "Peace in the Middle East," which was critical of Israel. Peretz allowed Chomsky to defend himself in a subsequent issue...