Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laude in government at Harvard in 1928 and a Harvard law degree in 1932, he enlisted in F.D.R.'s New Deal.* As a Labor Department lawyer, Blueblood Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general counsel of the Social Security Board, he helped defend the Social Security Act before the Supreme Court. At 33, he was elected to Congress-only to lose after one term to Boston's James Michael Curley...
...support of a sizable portion of the area they occupy. Indeed, the Communists consider guerilla warfare nothing less than a means of social revolution. It is the same Che Guevara, after all, whose guerilla handbook American soldiers now study, who described effective guerillas as ready "to die, not to defend an ideal, but to convert it into reality...
...their ultimate ideal of supranational European union. Britain's Lord Privy Seal. Edward Heath, last week resoundingly reaffirmed the primary concern of his government - and of the West : ''We must make it clear beyond all doubt that the object of our common policy is to defend and strengthen those liberties for which the Atlantic Alliance is the indispensable shield...
...Vladimir Tendryakov, a young prose writer whose most memorable story, about an escaped convict who bilks his rescuers, is a horrifying allegory aimed subtly at ex-Convict Joseph Stalin; Victor Rozov, most censured and celebrated for a script about a disturbed youth who cannot understand how his elders could defend evil from political necessity; Vasily Aksenov, whose young jets are pictured as mixed-up idealists; Victor Nekrasov, a psychological novelist with a penchant for the bewildered and inarticulate...
...together"-except in the case that prompted Lenny's musings: the latest Philharmonic appearance of intractable but talented Pianist Glenn Gould, 29. After explaining to the 2,800 in the audience that he disapproved of Gould's interpretation of Brahms's D Minor but would defend to the death an artist's right to experiment, Lenny democratically beckoned the intense Canadian to the stage. Gould-who considers his pinkies too precious for any more effusive greeting-gratefully touched Bernstein's fingertips and launched into his very special, barely audible and snail-like reading...