Word: hemlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves. If he has a legitimate means of registering his dissent, the citizen cannot take illegitimate means or decide for himself which laws he will obey and which he will disobey. "In war, and in the court of justice, and everywhere," Socrates told Crito before he drank the hemlock, "you must do whatever your state and your country tell you to do, or you must persuade them that their commands are unjust." For each man unilaterally to veto the law would create anarchy-a kind of immorality of its own. The precedent of Nuremberg, it might be added, applied only...
...BUREAUCRACY The Wages of Truth The lot of the truthteller has never been easy, as the ancient Greeks proved by silencing Socrates with a cup of hemlock. Today's methods for muffling disquieting voices of candor are subtler, but no less effective. Take the example of Administration officials and civil servants who fail to fall into step with White House efforts to put a rosy glow on statistics...
...given a network airing, the frog was compromised. Or so Henson decided. Like Jim Thorpe, Kermit played for money, and now must relinquish his amateur standing. He is being phased out of the show. He will be replaced by such Muppets as Lecturer Herbert Birdsfoot and Sherlock Hemlock, a bumbling sleuth...
...Hemlock All Around...
...theologically and liturgically conservative." He adds ruefully that he might also have been intolerant. Feeling that all men were symbolically present at Golgotha on Good Friday, he imagines himself as a Hellenized Jew who asks, "Why can't authorities execute criminals humanely and in private by giving them hemlock, as they did with Socrates...