Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Student Unrest. The decree originally was a response to the student unrest and terrorism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although West German law already required all civil servants to defend and uphold the constitution, it was argued that new guidelines were required to specifically define "disloyalty." In January 1972, the then Chancellor Willy Brandt endorsed the decree, which barred people from public jobs if they were "members of organizations pursuing anticonstitutional aims...
...prepare young men to perform honorably and reliably on the battlefield. The problem that he and the U.S. Army confront is how to revise the code, and the system of justice that goes with it, to foster a sense of honor in the cadets-a system that they can uphold with honor themselves
...director's limits match all too well the shortcomings of his writer. McGuane has just one small, familiar idea to toy to death. It is that those who uphold the law are less delightful, what with their hypocrisy and all, than his merry band of outlaws. They demonstrate exemplary camaraderie and a shrewd aw-shucks kind of existential humor. It does not really help much that this funny stuff is juxtaposed with sud denbursts of the most brutal violence, thus demonstrating that whatever grace notes we find in life, a rather grubby mortality always has its stinger...
...that "I will make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" and won re-election with 57% of the vote-has got himself into deep political trouble. A former cop and police commissioner from South Philly's tough "Little Italy" district, Rizzo, 55, is accused of failing to uphold law-and-order in the city. Having campaigned on the slogan "He held taxes down," he is now advocating harsh new levies. So sharply has his honor's popularity plunged that a Philadelphia Bulletin poll published in mid-April gave him an anemic 27% approval rating among those surveyed...
...professors exhibit about "grade inflation." A large number of our faculty attended Harvard and have never taught elsewhere. To these a Harvard education is something unique. A Harvard degree ought to imply special qualities of excellence and achievement. Harvard, they feel, has a special obligation--indeed, a mission--to uphold standards. Doubtless it is good for morale that so many Harvard professors share this notion of Cantabridgian superiority, but the delusion can be harmful if it leads them to impose gargantuan assign ments upon our students. Fortunately Harvard professors who have taught elsewhere can remind their parochial colleagues that Harvard...