Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation does create a dilemma for those of us who find ourselves in passionate opposition to the general drift of American society--a position often reached with uneasy astonishment. As students and teachers we have no objective interest in kicking down the far from sturdy walls that still do protect us. For all their faults and inadequacies the universities, and especially perhaps Harvard, do constitute a moat behind which it is still possible to examine and indict the destructive trends in our society. There may be some students at Harvard, perhaps on occasion even a stray faculty member...
Lang, professor of mathematics at Columbia, cited four examples of administrative failure to protect members of an academic community...
...demonstration fulfilled its announced goal perfectly: to symbolize the transformation of a major portion of the peace movement from a role of advocacy to one of resistance. This was driven home by the bare fact that American troops in time of war were forced to protect the nerve center of our "defense establishment" from American people...
...communications, cryptography has acquired supreme importance in guessing and occasionally ascertaining the next step of friend and foe alike. Within the bowels of NSA, constant research is conducted into new theories and systems of communications and codes. Mathematicians probe the domains of statistics and higher algebra to solve or protect complex ciphers, while other experts focus on such esoteric topics as the effect of electromagnetic radiation on radio and satellite transmissions. To aid in this task, NSA harbors in its massive, concrete-walled basements what is probably the most sophisticated and largest concentration of computers in the world...
Among the many issues to be considered by the Supreme Court this term, few are more in need of the court's attention than the matter of obscenity. In related cases last week, the court summarily applied the First Amendment to protect a group of girlie magazines banned by Louisiana, and a group of Danish homosexual magazines impounded by U.S. Customs because they were illustrated almost entirely by front views of nude males. On the other side of the ledger, the court refused to review the conviction of a sculptor in Miami who had been fined $100 for displaying...