Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Registrar also said that drivers should slow down on Halloween to protect children who may be darting about in dark costumes during dusk or early darkness, especially in residential areas...
...calls for his tarts. One of these whores throws herself naked on a cake; sex and eating become one and the same. Except in that director Marco Ferreri depicts eating in complete pornographic detail while restricting his portrayal of sex to angles and acts which coyly protect his male stars and are well within the soft-core boundaries of major studio productions...
This, then, is the university version of the high-school myth of "NO CONNECTIONS." It functions well: both to sedate the lives and to protect the conscience of the university-population from all knowledge, memory or recognition of the pain, the anguish and the devastation of those tens of thousand who live just beyond their reach and past their recognition. The fine, wood-panelled dining-hall on Quincy Street cleans the surface of the scholar's conscience with the polish of good manners, decent bearings, and appropriate understatement of his discontent. Clean silver, cool sherbet, slivers of lime and fabric...
...himself with remarkable honesty, warts and all; the adult Reid is no doubt aware of this or that immaturity, this or that blindness. Some will pounce on the fact that "John Reid" is a pseudonym; you may as well know that "Charles Bonnell" is, too. Reid does it to protect the privacy of everyone who has had contact with him; I use my real name at meetings like those of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association. In contrast, some of Allen Ginsberg's partners have later found in the pages of Playboy all the details of who did what with...
...Hussein has acted with courageous prudence, Feisal with caution, and Sadat has proved a more subtle and rational strategist than Nasser. On almost every major issue, solutions that could be made palatable to both sides have long been canvassed-a demilitarized Sinai and a demilitarized West Bank that would protect Israel without its occupying Arab lands; territorial adjustments in the Golan Heights, juridical solutions to the problem of Jerusalem; compensation and compromises on the Palestinian Arab refugees; face-saving devices so that the two sides could meet together. Most of these points were talked out in Secretary of State Rogers...