Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great part of it is now double-Dutch and Latin no more ... Here then, between poets capable of much and copyists capable of anything, is a promising field for the exercise of tact and caution; a prudent editor will be slow to emend the text and slow to defend it, and his page will bristle with the obelus. But alas, it is not for specimens of tact and caution that one resorts to the editors of the Culex; it is rather to fill one's bosom with sheaves of improbable corrections and impossible explanations. In particular the editions of Baehrens...
...collapse of old European empires, said the Governor, has left a "most political vacuum," to fill which communism "offers a cruel design for world order." Some grand design is needed for the individual nation-state is no longer able to "defend its freedom, to fulfill the aspirations of its own people from within its own borders or through its own resources...
...exhilarating for Mr. Kennedy, the policy defeat must be depressing. Although he will ultimately get his Department, he has learned that the Republican leadership in the House intends to fight his program in the neolithic terms of American conservatism. This means they categorically opposed extensions of government operation, defend "states' rights," and refuse to send beyond the limits of the old Congressional game, which assumes both that political roles are neatly divided between the President and Congress, and that the position of Congress is inevitably that of a brake on a too-zealous executive. (The new House Majority Leader, Repi...
...depressing, because Mr. Kennedy's program implies his opinion that no one seriously believes in these old conservative homilies any more. He assumes agreement between the President and the people that the U.S. can no longer consider itself the fragile legal invention conservative formulas claim to protect and defend...
...time in the future; 3) in the new France, the S.A.O. will rip out the "Communist and Christian-Progressivist cancer that has undermined the state"; 4) the S.A.O. will eagerly join the French army as the "antiCommunist spearhead of the nation"; 5) having won France, the S.A.O. will then defend Western civilization through nationalism, which is "France's permanent vocation?the only means of fighting Communist expansion...