Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, it could be argued that in their independence of material possessions and their emphasis on peacefulness and honesty, hippies lead considerably more virtuous lives than the great majority of their fellow citizens. This, despite their blatant disregard for most of society's accepted mores and many of its laws-most notably those prohibiting the use of drugs-helps explain why so many people in authority, from cops to judges to ministers, tend to treat them gently and with a measure of respect. In the end it may be that the hippies have not so much dropped...
...Sullivan four years ago, the Supreme Court laid down tough constitutional limitations on libel recoveries by public officials. "A defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct," ruled the court, must be "made with 'actual malice'-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." So much for public officials. But what of persons very much in the public eye, though not public officials? They too play an important part in shaping the course and creeds of the country. Should not the press be permitted to write about...
...stable), GATT's British director general, Eric Wyndham White, cajoled and goaded the weary negotiators, personally drafted part of the final package of concessions, in which no nation got all that it wanted. "Even the greater economic powers," said Wyndham White, "can no longer pursue their destinies in disregard of others. Still less can they seek solutions to their economic problems by narrow nationalistic policies. Nor can one escape the impact of the economic difficulties of the others." The crucial compromises...
...using a field commander in time of war as a spokesman for his own conduct of that war, President Johnson reveals either gross tactlessness or, more terrible, ignorance of or disregard for American tradition. Whatever the right or wrong of the Viet Nam war, those Senators and Congressmen who applauded this performance make the cause of democracy that much harder to sustain...
...Southerners are hopeful that under the Republican scheme, school officials could skirt federal desegregation requirements. With a loosening of federal supervision--and with the diligent disregard that many Southern officials have shown for the law laid down by the Supreme Court--that would probably be the result...