Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have we made the choice we have? Again, there's really no telling. But it just might be that we have discovered that the civilization we have built to shield us from pain and uncertainty, to protect, preserve--yea enshrine--our comfort, has really done little more than steadily isolate us from the natural order that, as organic beings, we were once so much a part of. We are trying to recover what our apeman forbears had, even though it was interwoven with terror and ignorance, a feeling of belonging, a sense of unity with...
...sure she wants to marry him. What would you do?" Only 2% would take the drastic action of disowning her. A huge majority, 90%, would talk it over with her at length and urge her to discontinue the sexual activity; 61% would "tell her how to protect herself in such a situation again." Still, a sign of how the old morality persists in the midst of change was the finding that 36% would insist that the girl marry the young man -if he was of good character...
...America is the richest country in the world and must protect itself...
...speech that particularly impressed Nixon, Burger said two years ago that "governments exist chiefly to foster the rights and interests of their citizens, to protect their homes and property, their persons and their lives. If a government fails in this basic duty, it is not redeemed by providing even the most perfect system for the protection of the rights of defendants in the criminal courts. It is a truism of political philosophy rooted in history that nations and societies often perish from an excess of their own basic principle...
Beyond the Corporation's apparent surrender of the power to name Harvard's treasurer, this relationship could be unwise for the University's own selfish interest which the Corporation claims to protect. In a recent book James Ridgeway, an editor of The New Republic, charges that State Street agreed to this arrangement on condition that its investment funds receive priority over Harvard's when trading shares of the same stock...