Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing would so delight some Southern sheriffs as "an official sanction to keep utterly silent," adds the Washington Post's Associate Editor Alfred Friendly. "It would help immeasurably to harass, if not frame and convict, a civil rights activist, and it would help a segregationist bully slide through court to an acquittal...
...their side, and last week the prestigious French Conseil de L'Ordre Na tional des Médecins was showing signs of bending to popular pressure. Though the Conseil had first threatened to block the whole operation, it now seems willing to give the SOS doctors official sanction as a registered group. To pleased Parisians, that meant that emergency night medical aid would remain just a phone call away...
...TIME to state that Sylvia Plath "adds a powerful voice to the rising chorus of American bards who practice poetry as abreaction" (aberration?) is to sanction what today is the "in" thing to dp-lift the lid off the cesspool and revel in its bad odors. Spare us the ravings of the "confessional poet": poetry is no place for psychotic self-purgation. Miss Plath is typical of those who, in the words of Poet GustaV Davidson, have "corrupted poetry by emptying it of music, magic and meaning...
...country is yet ready to give such proposals legal sanction. But there is no doubt that modern medical technology leaves present laws, as well as physicians' traditional precepts and practices, out of date on essential matters of life and death...
...Foreign Affairs. The Portuguese, who make no secret of their support for Smith, only shrugged, refusing to interrupt "normal commerce" in Mozambique. Back in London, the Wilson government requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council and began drafting a resolution that-if approved-would give U.N. sanction to the use of British force in stopping Rhodesia-bound...