Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School forum broke out into controversy last night over the question of whether a lawyer has any obligation to defend a person whose political views he finds despicable. Earlier, the two panelists--Louis Nizer and Edward J. McCormack, Jr.--had agreed that the public image of a lawyer is not all it should...
While the children are busy playing peekaBoo, Atticus acquires a more substantial nightmare. He agrees to defend a Negro (Brock Peters) accused of assaulting a white girl. "Whuh kine a man aw yew?" the girl's father (James Anderson) snarls at Atticus. In court he proves his client's innocence, but the jury convicts the Negro anyway; and when he tries to escape, a guard shoots him dead. Nor is the nightmare ended even then. The girl's father, a vicious redneck with more whisky in his stumphole than brains in his head, goes stalking Scout...
Only an independent Europe can be expected to defend itself, because only it would have something to defend. A Frenchman will not fight for the American way of life...
Hughes went on to criticize American opposition to an Independent European nuclear deterrent force. He said that if Europe could defend itself against Soviet attack, the U.S. would be free to withdraw its troops from European bases and concentrate on solving problems at home...
...patience for those who think man's basic instinct is self-preservation. Man is not a "statue," writes Canetti, "with one hand reaching for food and with the other fending off its enemies. His way of procuring his prey is cunning, bloodthirsty and strenuous. He does not mildly defend himself but attacks his enemies as he senses them in the distance; his weapons of attack are far better developed than his weapons of defense...