Word: speech
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Justice White's majority opinion does leave open the possibility for broad censorship of student opinion by school officials, and threatens the long established precedent that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." But on the other hand, his ruling can be placed in the tradition of the Court's belief that the content of a publication should be up to the owner of the publication--and that access to that forum should be determined solely by the owners and not the Court...
Americans, like the citizens of George Orwell's fictional world of 1984, are in danger of becoming the victims of unmonitored invasions of privacy, said Morton Bromfield. President and founder of the Wellesley Hills-based American Privacy foundation, Bromfield presented his vision of 1988-cum-1984 in a speech to 30 listeners yesterday in Sanders Theatre...
This powerful and moving story has always been surrounded by mystery: Why would Athens, the cradle of democracy and free speech, prosecute its most famous philosopher? Accounts of the trial by Plato and Xenophon, both disciples of Socrates', suggest that the Athenians were simply tired of being prodded toward virtue by a self-styled gadfly. Retired Journalist I.F. Stone, something of a gadfly himself, has a different, iconoclastic answer. In this engaging ramble through Hellenic history and philology, Stone argues persuasively that the beloved Socrates was in reality a coldhearted, elitist, pro-Spartan snob who was openly contemptuous of Athens...
...Stone, the shame of the trial is that a "city famous for free speech prosecuted a philosopher guilty of no other crime than exercising it." But Socrates could easily have won acquittal, the author asserts and, in a charming exercise of historical imagination, composes the kind of speech the philosopher should have made. In essence, Stone contends, Socrates could have argued that Athens was on trial, not he. As his jurors knew well, he did not believe in free speech or democracy -- but they did. How then could they boast of those beliefs if they suppressed his right to express...
...shown, than when the camera pulls back to reveal the relatively small number of people involved. There is much fascinating footage of John F. Kennedy's and Richard Nixon's TV appearances, illustrating once again how friendly the medium was to one, cruel to the other. Nixon's "Checkers" speech, one of his rare TV triumphs, is included, of course -- but not just the familiar passage about Pat's "Republican cloth coat"; also Nixon's closing words, when he leans stiffly into the camera and intones, "Remember folks, Eisenhower is a great man . . ." just as time runs...