Word: libertarianism
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Goodman, the well-known anarchist philosopher and novelist, has libertarian views on sex. Dr. Biaine's article attacking premarital sex drew the attention of the nation's press to Harvard's parietals controversy...
...reason for the ruckus is the donor: Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, 84, a crusty, rasp-voiced publisher from Santa Ana. Calif., who plans to use Rampart College to promote the same "libertarian" philosophy with which he force feeds the 252,712 buyers of his five-state chain of Freedom Newspapers.* Hoiles's foes say he is to the right of Herod; he is, they say, an anarchist who carries laissez-faire economics to its illogical extreme...
McCloskey noted that with the resignation this August of Justice Felix Frank-further, the argument for Supreme Court conservatism and self-restraint "lost its most powerful intellectual champion." He added that if one of the two recently appointed justices joins the four-man libertarian group, there will then be the potential for "dramatic reversals" of previous opinions, and for greater willingness "to take up the cudgel against state invasions of rights regarded as federally protected...
...promotion of good citizenship the court should not interfere. "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. Were my purely personal attitude relevant, I should wholeheartedly associate myself with the general libertarian views in the Court's opinion. But as a member of this Court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard." During his early years on the Supreme...
...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...