Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marshall took pains to point out that the decision does not impair the court's previous rulings, which permit restrictions on publishers and sellers of obscene material. "The states," said Marshall, "retain broad power to regulate obscenity." That being the case, the new ruling creates an anomalous situation. "It says," complained District Attorney Lewis Slaton of Atlanta's Fulton County, "that a person has a right to possess obscene material which is illegal to sell...
Only with great reluctance and in extraordinary circumstances does the Administration permit any direct dialogue between representatives of students and the assembled Faculty. It is especially important to note that the least satisfied students and their representatives are those the Administration keeps most isolated from any potential dialogue with or support from the Faculty...
...school's secretaries were sent home early in the afternoon and the first year class afternoon sessions were cancelled. Many second-year professors cancelled their classes both as a precaution and permit students to attend the stadium rally...
...faculty tabled a resolution to permit students to attend the next meeting, on Tuesday. Bok may invite students to present their proposals for student participation at the Tuesday meeting, but they would then be asked to leave. No student spoke at last night's meeting...
...time has clearly come to stop pretending that the disruptions are adolescent pranks or justifiable excesses of young idealists. What is at stake now is nothing less that the perpetuating of universities as centers of reason in a free society. To permit them to be paralyzed or subverted by any lawless, coercive force of whatever ideology or objective is to give up on the survival of free society itself. --The New York TIMES