Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highest regions of polity to the humdrum level of a city sidewalk. (Will the last woman who saw the last man tip the last hat please stand up?) At least on the surface of U.S. life today, it is difficult to find any institution or idea that people dare uphold primarily in the name of tradition-not God, not country, and certainly not Yale, not the sanctity of motherhood or of private property, not even baseball, the automobile or psychoanalysis. As U.C.L.A. Sociologist Ralph Turner put it, only half in jest: "A tradition is something you did last year...
Society used to be one of the chief guardians of tradition, but what was once a fortress is now at best a series of scattered camps. Snobbery will always exist, but it is now on the defensive and increasingly hard to uphold against bright, moneyed or attractive outsiders. The chief question is no longer who belongs to a certain class and who doesn't, but who at a given moment is in or out of a particular clique-and the rule of in-and-out can be more tyrannical than any old-line social arbiter. Parties can mean anything...
...Joseph Hassett, S.J., professor of philosophy at Fordham University, assured Catholics that they could support divorce reform in good conscience, because civil law is made "not to uphold religious convictions of a particular group, but to promote the common good of all citizens." Lined up behind reform were New York's top Catholic politicians, from Senator Bobby Kennedy to New York City Council President Frank O'Connor...
...special report, entitled "The New South and the Grand Old Party," leaves little doubt about the Young Republicans' attitude toward the Party's racist component. Calling for Republicans to uphold the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the report demands expulsion of members of the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society from the G.O.P. "If it was necessary to become `respectable' after Reconstruction by expelling Negroes from the party," the report says, "it is imperative that today's `respectability' involve the rejection of right-wing fanatics and night-riding bigots...
...personally as well as politically motivated. Although the five "firing" councillors did have formal access to both the mayor and the manager, they thought that Curry and Crane had rendered the Council's real power nominal. The important decisions were made by the mayor, they felt, who would uphold Curry on any issue. Whether or not this was the case--or, if it was, whether the five were as much to blame as were Crane and Curry--is almost irrelevant. What is important is that this perception of the situation created a subtle but ever-present personal resentment...