Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government under law, Chief Justice John Marshall observed in the early 19th century, a judge must be "perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience." To help protect him from temptation, the framers of the Constitution created a free and independent federal judiciary, with life tenure, a handsome salary and protection from capricious removal or congressional retaliation. The judge's part of the bargain is implicit but clear. He is expected to adhere to moral standards far more stringent than those of the ordinary citizen. As Washington Attorney Joseph Borkin...
...things stand now, the odds are that Fortas will resign. Still, he may be tempted to fight to protect his name in history. He knows that impeachment convictions are not easily won: only four of the 13 high Government officials impeached in U.S. history have been convicted. Nonetheless, Fortas may decide that the better part of valor is to admit an indiscretion, assert his innocence and quietly fade away...
...comes, it comes," says a shopkeeper in the Moussky. "There is nothing I can do except protect myself and my family and my business from bombs the best I can." The attitude seems typical of Cairenes, preoccupied with living through whatever lies ahead in the safest and most comfortable way possible. The daily task of hacking a way through the urban jungle is difficult enough for ordinary Cairenes, visible in the streets as ranks of sullen men in unpressed suits. Bitterly insecure, frustrated and angry, they might, in a less apathetic country, provide the base for a revolution. In Egypt...
...they are still exceptional. Many self-centered scholars still insist that they are hired to teach, not to run universities. Equally self-centered are some professors who do get involved, supporting whatever students demand as a way of enhancing their own popularity. Sometimes professors are even too passive to protect their own interests. Last week, for example, the academic senate at Berkeley met to vote on a resolution branding as "unnecessary, illegitimate and dangerous" a move by the University of California regents to review all tenure appointments. The resolution was approved unanimously-by the 75 faculty members...
...point out that the fact that many students and faculty are recipients of government loans and grants renders them particularly subject to political reprisal. However, I added that the Harvard Governing Boards have always been zealous to protect the freedom of the faculty and students to express their views on any subject and will continue to resist any encroachment on that freedom from the government, the alumni, or any other source...