Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preserve and Protect, Drury...
...roiled is the country's mood that Wallace describes his election as nec essary not merely to contain dissent and disturbance but also to protect dissenters and disturbers from repressions worse than any that he would impose on them. His implication is clear: only his victory can placate the New Right sufficiently to prevent vigilante action. This artful threat of ever more taut confrontation carries with it the prospect of still more violence, which in turn could lead to curtailment of traditional civil liberties. Some hard-core rebels of the farthest left would welcome exactly that. They reason that...
...necessary? Why should a policeman be required to stand filthy abuse from highly unattractive protesters? In part because, as the Supreme Court interprets it, the First Amendment commands American policemen to protect free speech. More important, a policeman who can ignore abuse is not only a good law officer, not only a moral victor, but a living symbol of a free society strong and calm enough to withstand any challenge. But this takes the kind of police and civilian leaders who respect the Constitution-and set the right tone for cops on the front line. Mayor Richard Daley hardly helped...
...personage of Mexico's President, and seized the chance of disrupting the upcoming Olympics (see SPORT) as a historic opportunity for official embarrassment. For his part, dedicated, aloof President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz grimly vowed "to do whatever is our duty, however far we are obliged to go," to protect his country's good name and, presumably, the Olympics tourist trade. Fortnight ago, he ordered the army into the National University's campus, violating a 40-year tradition of academic freedom from government interference...
...dropout soon meets other dropouts, or malcontents on the verge of dropping out; he establishes bonds, he eventually becomes part of a community of his own kind. This community faces the problems of any social unit: how to protect itself, how to meet the physical needs of its people, and how to meet their spiritual needs...