Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remarks on the distortion of thinking which results from the strict obligation to adhere to the party line reveals the bleak condition of intellectual life in a Marxist country. The historical perspective and the vision of the world which intellectuals of Eastern European communist countries are expected to uphold is "less that of the strict Marxist theory than of a more immediate justification of the actions of the men in power." This degradation of history into a pragmatic tool of general policy transforms historians into servants of the regime, "the historical front of the ruling class," he explains. This...
Cambridge voters interested in these three goals need to uphold and to expand the tenuous progressive majority that has ruled Cambridge city government for several years. Incumbents Saundra Graham, Francis Duehay, Mary Ellen Preusser, Alfred E. Vellucci and David Wylie all have solid progressive voting records. Without these five, rents would be higher and an even larger percentage of Cambridge housing would be condominiums...
Preusser says that if the courts uphold Harvard's exemption under the constitution, she and State Rep. Barney Frank '62 will start the constitutional amendment process...
...seeming to uphold American political traditions, Podhoretz and his allies have been dubbed "neo-conservatives," a label that causes them some discomfort. Podhoretz continues to claim to be a liberal; it is the radicals, he insists, who became illiberal. Such quib bling may be of greater interest to the author than to his readers. But if his book is often tedious in detail, it has a sweeping theme. At a time of testing, the Commentary group upheld standards of civilized discourse and thereby earned an honorable place in the history of American letters. They behaved as intellectuals are supposed...
What specific insights? Handlin felt they were important enough to uphold entire works, but not relevant enough to explain to his readers...