Word: libertarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reveal a colleague's foibles and lead to blackmail. With friends, he must listen closely to others' conversation, be continually alert to give or obey the service's traditional signal to change the subject: a long, pointed look at the ceiling. In time, the naturally communicative, libertarian American citizen tends to react to constant surveillance with moods of black depression...
Despite the claims of YAF to be a youthful, dynamic, libertarian movement, the rally was cast in the rigid mold right-wing gatherings have used from time immemorial. At least nine American flags hung over the stage. The young officials of YAF had the appearance, as George Sokolsky put it, of "trustees of an institution." Their lengthy speeches ranged from conventionstyle rhetoric ("it is a significant historical movement -- the wave of the future -- leading to the rise of a responsible alternative to apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography...
...Conservative Roger Hamowy'' does not favor "disarmament in the interests of 'freedom,' because then the Government would be forced to cut taxes." Libertarian Ronald Hamowy favors disarmament because of the conviction that nuclear war would certainly involve the total destruction of civilization and that some sort of disarmament agreement with Soviet Russia is feasible. That such disarmament would allow for a reduction in federal expenditures of many billions of dollars and would, perhaps, result in the lowering of taxes is a worthwhile, but ancillary, consideration...
Methods of Repression. Paradoxically, wherever the new spirit of national free dom is on forced march - in Africa, Asia, the Middle East- freedom of the press is usually trampled underfoot. Once freed of their countries' colonial occupiers, the new rulers of Africa often modeled them selves not on libertarian standards but on the example of Africa's oldest black republic, Liberia, which has kept the press subjugated for 134 years...
...Robert E. Lee worked up a courtroom melodrama (TIME, May 2, 1955) that stayed in style for two full seasons on Broadway-partly because, like the trial, it was sure-shot theater, mostly because Paul Muni, who played Darrow, developed his role into an unforgettable set piece of libertarian tirade. Thanks to Producer-Director Stan ley Kramer, Inherit the Wind has now been made into a movie that retains al most nothing of the play but its flashy, trashy script...