Word: interests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Interest in McCarthy climaxed in the spring of 1954 during the televised Army-McCarthy hearings. Shapiro speaks for many classmates when he says, "I spent most of the spring of my senior year in front of a television." Christopher Lasch, a University of Rochester historian and author, adds that the only time he could remember so many people watching television was during the 1951 World Series. Updike says, "We were outraged and amused by this kind of buffoon. Nixon seemed that way too. From the safety of Harvard, it looked like an aberration in American politics--a subject in which...
...Cold War and McCarthy scared many of us into believing that gullibility was a greater vice than servility or calculated careerism. Yet, political leaders of the Class of '54 are among the most idealistic in Congress, struggling against the politics of self-interest toward a still blurred vision of global interdependence and the responsibility of those favored by nature and history to the rest of humanity. "I wasn't a radical when I was young," Robert Frost told us, "so I don't have to be a reactionary when...
...general right in all persons to refuse medical treatment in appropriate circumstances," based on the constitutional right to privacy which modern courts have interpreted in the last 15 years. It also accepted the current ethical practice that providing comfort for a dying patient is often in his own best interest...
...weigh the individual's right to privacy and human dignity versus the state's interest, the court established itself as the chief decision-maker, with the help of a court-appointed guardian...
...Supreme Judicial Court will now have to develop a balancing test to determine when the individual's right to privacy outweighs the state's interest in preserving the sanctity of human life. And the court must once again address the prickly question, who should pull the plug? Should the court provide doctors a guideline for dealing with patients who refuse treatment, or should it require adjudication of all right-to-die cases? The court's answer could lead to another stormy chapter in the effort to resolve the dilemma that Karen Ann Quinlan first triggered...