Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Updike comments on the reputation of his class as the "silent generation": "We didn't question the in- tervention (in Korea). The idea that nations now and then fought was an unquestioned assumption. There was no doubt that America was the strongest and happiest nation in the world and opportunities were what we made them...
...QUESTION Gordon poses today's listeners is--how much are your memories worth to you? For people who experienced rockabilly first- hand Gordon must seem at best a throwback, a rock-and-roll neanderthal. Such people would do better to dredge out their old bop records and bop to them than to Gordon's albums, modern engineering notwithstanding...
...view the judicial resolution of this most difficult and awesome question--whether potentially life-prolonging treatment should be withheld from a person incapable of making his own decision--as constituting a 'gratuitous encroachment' on the domain of medical expertise. Rather, such questions of life and death seem to us to require the process of detached but passionate investigation, and decision that forms the ideal on which the judicial branch of government was created. Achieving this ideal is our reponsibility and that of the lower court, and is not to be entrusted to any other group purporting to represent the 'morality...
...Supreme Judicial Court will now have to develop a balancing test to determine when the individual's right to privacy outweighs the state's interest in preserving the sanctity of human life. And the court must once again address the prickly question, who should pull the plug? Should the court provide doctors a guideline for dealing with patients who refuse treatment, or should it require adjudication of all right-to-die cases? The court's answer could lead to another stormy chapter in the effort to resolve the dilemma that Karen Ann Quinlan first triggered...
...owned stock in American corporations with subsidiaries in Nazi Germany. Would it have adopted an investment policy similar to the one it now owns up to in South Africa and offered three or four scholarships to German-Jewish students to come to Harvard? That is a question that perhaps no one can answer with great certainty, but the present South Africa stockholding policy casts a dark fearful shadow over the answer...