Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article the most important. Thus, if his message is primarily socio-political, it is entirely appropriate that it be criticized on the political level. I am a firm believer in academic freedom, indeed in all freedom of thought and expression. But just as it is intolerable to suppress thought for political reasons, so is it intolerable to make a political statement immune from exposure under the guise of academic freedom...
...Dwight Eisenhower-have argued that a Chief Executive must accord his advisers the full freedom to offer their candid counsel without being forced to tell Congress or the nation's newspapers what it was. Yet the doctrine has sometimes been invoked to conceal bumbling, or political pressures, to suppress valid arguments against the decisions a President finally makes, or to hide outright corruption within an Administration...
...Gospels may have a point. But they have missed the contemporary echoes that Superstar trades on with audiences likely to know little of the Bible and less of history. The high priests are not so much Jews as caricatures of all officials whose job and ambition is to suppress disorder. John Mitchell and Mayor Daley, for instance, might almost as well protest as the American Jewish Committee...
...attempt to suppress the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe from printing the Pentagon papers and subsequent legal action against Daniel Ellsberg for releasing the papers...
...with unrestrained pleasure that Muller-who neither drinks nor smokes but freely uses four-letter words -refers to himself with the radical epithet Pig. Having heard Mayor Daley instruct his police to suppress demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention, Muller even understands why the epithet is slung: "Personally, I didn't go for most of the antics of the Conspiracy Eight defendants, but if you've been around the courts as long as I have, you know what the Bobby Scales and Abbie Hoffmans were ranting about. You'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind...