Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems as if that contradicts what you state in your preface to Interview with History. You say, "I do not understand power, the mechanism by which men or women feel themselves invested or become invested with the right to rule over others and punish them if they do not obey. Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president...I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon." As a journalist and writer, you wield a very real power, and I think you understand that...
What the University fails to realize is that it tacitly supports the methods of the new regime by building the new university that its willingness to obey the Iranian government may presage a time when the administrators and governors of the new institution, however seemingly enlightened, are forced to do the same...
...Mullens were unlikely protesters. Although Catholics and Democrats in a predominantly Protestant and Republican region, they shared the natural conservatism common to most farmers. The Mullens had reared their four children to obey the authority of man and God, and they were not self-conscious about admitting they belonged to the Silent Majority. Michael, the eldest, had been an outstanding 4-H Club member and even tried to persuade his parents to vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964. When his draft notice came, he was a graduate biochemistry student who planned to take over the family farm...
...Jewish student said yesterday that most Jewish undergraduates don't usually observice strict religious dietary laws, but they do try to obey this rule...
...promised to free. All he wanted in return for helping the Republican Party was its gratitude and a promise to continue ostracizing Castro's Cuba. In 1973, his world seemed no more real than that of the Japanese soldier who belatedly emerged from the Phillipine jungle to obey his Emperor's surrender orders. The rest of the United States has managed to forget the years devoted to crushing the Communist island within ninety miles of our territory. Neglect has proved to be a simpler policy than military invasion...