Word: protectiveness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scheffler said that he shared the group's desire "to protect the interests of people with differing opinions." but added that the Moratorium as it is planned at Harvard is "fine...
...reply, Pusey stressed the University's duty to "protect the rights of its minorities." He added that while the war and the Moratorium "are quite properly subjects of individual or group concern and action," the University's "long-term health" depends on avoiding political stands...
...chief concern to me. I feel strongly that the long range health of this and other universities depends upon observing it. A second. no less-important point is that the right of dissent does not include the right to force assent. A university must be as concerned to protect the rights of its minorities as to respect the wishes of its majorities. A growing carelessness in regard to this basic principle of civilized democratic life seems regrettably to be present in our community...
...result of Nixon's "Southern strategy," a political ploy the President has repeatedly denied. According to this theory, Nixon met with South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and other Southern leaders in Atlanta in May of last year. The Southerners promised Nixon two things. First, they would protect Southern delegates for Nixon in the convention against the poaching of California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Second, they would do their best to hold the line in the general election against Alabama's George Wallace. In return, Nixon supposedly made certain promises, one of them being a guarantee...
...quick to defend their motives. Many feel that peacetime conscription is unjust, unnecessary and unAmerican. They are convinced that draft boards are often callous, bureaucratic, discriminatory-and usually ignorant of the law. Under the circumstances, they argue, a young man is perfectly justified in hiring a lawyer to protect his rights...