Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gardner died 21 years after this ceremony--but her cult has grown. The museum guards uphold it. Of course, they are so old that I suspect that Mrs. Gardner selected and stationed them as carefully as she planned the inanimate objects of the museum. When these guards speak of "her," Mrs. Gardner seems very alive...
...follow one's true feelings at a given stage of development rather than anxiously submitting to the opinions of others, be these views for or against premarital sex. Instead, students too often meet with such sweeping statements from their elders as, "Yorulcation in ... against the law ... Harvard has to uphold the law" (Dr. Cobb), or the grouping by implication of premarital sexuality with plagi, lying, and (Dean Munro). Such dogmatic support of the sexual status que gives many youths the feeling that some of their deepest nings are profoundly misunderstood and condemned. Unless the legitimacy of the best elements...
...what he pleases is false. It is not his room; it has been assigned to him by the College as a temporary domicile and the College is responsible if illegal acts take place in that room. Fornication is still against the law in Massachusetts. Harvard has to uphold...
...pained howls of Senators Goldwater, Stennis, Thurmond and others of limited social conscience have a somewhat ludicrous ring to them. Surely the Junior Senator from Arizona does not seriously propose that an order preventing military personnel from patronizing businesses which do not uphold the basic freedoms and decencies the armed forces are supposed to be defending is a "police state" tactic. And, recalling the vehemence of Senatorial attacks on the Defense Department when it prevented officers from engaging in free-lance public education on the dangers of Communism, it is curious to find Sens. Goldwater and Stennis now deeply concerned...
...white, but shades of gray" is applicable to the problem of full Civil Rights for the Negro in America. The same Civil Rights that the Negro is struggling to realize through constitutional processes, are the same Civil Rights that every American has a moral and civic duty to uphold. There is no racial monopoly on these rights and duties. How can any American, committed to these rights for every other American, be expected to "step-aside" or "step-down" in this crucial period in America's effort to realize its full potential for the cause of freedom within the frame...