Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with time. In the process, he modified or danced away from several of his well-documented, iconoclastic views on key legal issues ranging from freedom of speech to sex discrimination. To explain his evolving ideas, he quoted Benjamin Franklin: "The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and to pay more respect to the judgment of others...
...parents. This "realistic" family has petty squabbles and conflicts, but they are resolved easily, without pain or embarrassment for anyone. Dad may look beleaguered at times, but in a pinch he always reacts with just the right mix of firmness and compassion -- and never a hint of self-doubt. (Even Jim Anderson agonized in the kitchen over his fatherly duties.) Children may misbehave, but their disobedience only provides an opportunity for the parents to demonstrate how to deal with such matters -- or better yet, for the kids to show how they have internalized their parents' values. When a friend...
...growing intolerance and resurgent McCarthyism in this society. Only this morning I received in the mail a campaign letter from Senator Howard Metzenbaum requesting support in his fight against a red-baiting smear directed at him by extremist elements in the Ohio Republican party. The Senator will no doubt be even more saddened to learn that a Harvard professor has suffered the same injury from one of his own students. Orlando Patterson
...coffee cups have been replaced by a bank. Another bank is about to succeed Brigham's across the street. A Mt. Auburn St. building that housed three bars and a restaurant is gone; soon offices and boutiques will occupy its site. Two of the old establishments will return--no doubt to upscale surroundings and a different clientele...
...morally wrong, and in 1981 he testified in Congress against the "human life" bill that would have defined life as beginning at conception. Says John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee: "We're not sure Bork is against abortion. In our circles, there is substantial doubt that...