Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomatic efforts fail and if American lives are in immediate danger, the Carter Administration should not rule out the use of a tactical force specifically ordered to save these lives. Although a state is obliged to respect the territorial rights of another, it has a greater duty to defend the lives of its representatives abroad...
...unenlightened viewer's problem, writes Schapiro, is one of "discriminating the good in an unfamiliar form which is often confused by the discouraging mass of insensitive imitations." His argument is simple: we have a moral responsibility to like abstract art and a moral duty to defend it. If we don't fulfill these tasks, we are insensitive. Worse, he labels as brain-damaged those who refuse to properly appreciate modern art. Those who condemn abstraction do so, because they require an "already known order, familiar and reassuring." Amazingly, Schapiro calls on a neurologist to verify this "handicap": "The sense...
...think there is no other practical way, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, than for the Israelis and the Arabs to live mixed together. Israel would keep its forces in these areas-to defend itself, not to interfere in the lives of the Palestinians. We would not drive them away, and we would not take from them a single acre of land. But we should have the right to settle where we choose if there is either state land or land...
...there are important issues in the campaign. Violence in Boston has candidates worrying over racial imbalance in Cambridge schools. Twenty-five per cent of Cambridge high school students are minorities (40 per cent if you use federal, not state, guidelines). Incumbents nervously defend the committee's "Racial Balance Plan." Passed last year, the plan attempts to avoid forced busing by encouraging parents to voluntarily send children to racially-imbalanced schools by providing special "magnet" programs...
...topic returns to style. If economic necessity brought on the merger, it did not give Radcliffe an excuse for self-congratulations. If combined housing became necessary in 1970, the change could not defend a loss of civility. What matters is not life's changes but the way we react to them--"on what moral basis and with what style we meet the inevitable," Trilling said...