Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Airport, Hailey (2 last week) Preserve and Protect, Drury (1) The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (3) The Hurricane Years, Hawley (9) Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell...
Journalism has invented conventions to protect this myth of objectivity. Things like pyramid style, the absence of modifiers, the elimination of the first-person are used to separate the reporter from the story he is writing in much the same way as he is separated by his role from the event itself...
...historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision when it ruled a year later that the states did not have to desegregate their schools immediately, but only "with all deliberate speed." In effect, said Steel, the court was serving notice that it was "a white court which would protect the interests of white America in the maintenance of stable institutions." The justices, he said, "considered the potential damage to white Americans resulting from the diminution of privilege as more critical than continued damage to the underprivileged." They have now ordered segregation plucked out "root and branch." But 14 years after...
...students inside voted not to touch any files, but later admitted that they had destroyed some. The dean of the college, Walter Knight, and six of his colleagues barricaded themselves in one room during the occupation to protect important papers...
...room has little furniture. His black plastic executive-style reclining chair wheels around on a six foot plastic shield, to protect the carpet...