Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...essence the Center cannot be distinguished from the general academic context of which it is a part. The demand to suppress it is in fact a demand to suppress freedom of academic research. Serious radicals ought to be the first to defend that freedom. Any effective effort to adapt and reform our society and the international order will depend heavily on the quality of thinking and knowledge on which it rests. The universities are one of the few places where such independent analysis can be carried on in a systematic way. If the extremists should succeed in disrupting the universities...
Schottland stood before the collected Boston press corps Friday, sensing that his job was to both appease and defend. In the back of the room, a highly efficient and likeable university public relations director had set out drinks, sandwiches, and coffee for his friends in the press corps. "It was a really big spread," one reporter commented...
...accomplished Heinlein readers do not usually take offense at those of his books which propound political philosophies contrary to everything the reader believes; for we know that, if we but wait long enough, he will write another book in which he will ardently defend exactly the opposite point of view. It is a measure of the man's incredible philosophical wishy-washiness that one of his novels, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, is one of the guiding tracts of the YAF, while Stranger In A Strange Land (his greatest, I might add) has helped inspire thousands of acid-freaks...
...LIBERAL caucus did not officially form until several months later, the day after police cleared students from University Hall last Spring. Composed of a more even mix of junior and senior Faculty members, and professors from the humanities and natural sciences, the liberals gathered not to defend the institution, but to give direction to the inevitable changes they believed must come...
...There is a growing sense that the University as an intellectual enterprise is under attack from both the right and the left, from both inside the University and out," Hughes explained, "and hence people have begun to unify to defend the institution...