Word: yet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unmitigated disasters. The court in effect allows the press to print anything it can get its hands on. When the Supreme Court held that a newsman's state of mind and his preparations for a story were legitimate subjects of inquiry, this evoked visions of thought police; and yet it was only a consequence of an earlier pro-press ruling that a public figure, in order to be able to sue for libel, must prove "actual" malice and gross neglect on the part of the journalist. Most newsmen do not demand confidentiality of sources automatically, but only when naming...
...rights of journalists. That is a mixed blessing. Spelling out rights that were assumed to exist under the general protection of the First Amendment may very well result in limiting those rights. Most of the press would much rather not run to Congress for protection against the courts. Yet if the courts continue on their present course, journalists will have little alternative...
Boswell saw his afflictions as the price of sin. Yet he refused to practice berth control and even patronized brothels, which was tantamount to sexual kamikaze. He died unpleasantly when infection infiltrated and destroyed his kidneys...
...Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes. It was the era of the common man! Predictably William's 'sense of humanity' was an approved value of that particular cultural trend. However, alternative views are possible ... I question whether an indiscriminate liking for people is a virtue ... Yet that may be one reason why Williams went into general practice, and I became a pathologist. He was willing to accept the world and people in it as they were; I reserve the right to review them under the microscope and look daily at their weaknesses, faults, malformations, and diseases...
...Benjamin Thompson, the architect who renovated Quincy Market, to devise a plan for the theater district. So far, at least four major buildings -offices and part of the Tufts-New England Medical Center-are scheduled to rise near the combat zone. Boston once pulled off a revolution; it may yet find the means to manage a renaissance...