Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heimert's view of the university can be deduced from this concern for his own integrity. Like so many of the men who lived through McCarthy's murderous anti-intellectualism, he has come to believe that the first task of any academy is to uphold man's right to isolate himself. "A university can promote many things beside the intellectual enterprise," he says, "But I worry the moment it starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however...
...evaluating our policy means weakening it," says former Congressman Walter Judd, a longtime friend of Nationalist China. Even such moderates as former Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach uphold the older view. "It is China's position that is inflexible-not ours," he says. "Our relations are not bad because of something we are not doing." Says John Gronouski, ex-U.S. Ambassador to Poland and a veteran of fruitless talks with...
...tacitly admit that it is a crime only because it occurs in a land where the Christian religion is prevalent." In light of recent Supreme Court decisions, Weant concluded that "any law, including blasphemy, which seeks to protect any form of religion, much less Christianity," is now impossible to uphold...
...times as many males as females from the College each year. That tradition is hard to question as long as Harvard and Radcliffe stay separate and have an inflexible number of spaces in their respective dormitories. But once the two schools merge, the tradition will be very hard to uphold. It is not even certain that Harvard could legally discriminate against female applicants at a four to one ratio, but more fundamentally it is hard to defend philosophically an educational system in which males and females are given equal treatment in every way except admissions...
...meantime, astrologers must continue to uphold the fancy that particular planets influence particular facets of human personality or specific events. Even under these ground rules, there are so many variables and options to play with that the astrologer is always right. Break a leg when your astrologer told you the signs were good, and he can congratulate you on escaping what might have happened had the signs been bad. Conversely, if you go against the signs and nothing happens, the astrologer can insist that you were subconsciously careful because you were forewarned...