Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislators made their remarks in opening statements prepared for a joint hearing on the findings of the presidential commission. The commission's chairman, Dartmouth President John G. Kemeny, and a majority of its members will defend their report at the hearing...
...nuclear balance. As long ago as the mid-1960s, when targets in the U.S. first became vulnerable to Soviet ICBMS, the threat of massive nuclear retaliation lost some of its credibility, and thus some of its ability to deter Soviet aggression. Would U.S. leaders really defend Western Europe by launching a nuclear strike against the U.S.S.R. if that could trigger a devastating Soviet counterstrike at New York or Los Angeles? The question echoes more loudly now that the U.S. no longer boasts strategic superiority. As Kissinger put it in Brussels, "It is absurd to base the strategy of the West...
Jackson was hardly fazed by the criticism. Continuing to defend the P.L.O. as "a government in exile," he met Jordan in Chicago, and Jordan said afterward that "we agreed to disagree without being disagreeable." Others on Jackson's side were less cordial. The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a onetime aide to Martin Luther King Jr., charged that Jordan had succumbed to "the plantation syndrome." The Rev. William Augustus Jones, president of the Progessive National Baptist Convention, sneered that the Jordan-Hooks statements proved that the Urban League and N.A.A.C.P. operate under "financial constraints imposed... by their white members...
...book to searching for an explanation and concludes that intellectuals suffered a failure of nerve. When confronted, they would not fight for their beliefs, especially if the opposition came from the left, which was supposed to be on the side of justice and humanity. They would not defend the integrity of thought against crude up-against-the-wall sloganeering...
...student members then depend on the faculty members of CUE to defend their case before the Faculty Council, but in the past the professors have rarely relished the task. Because the CUE rarely takes a vote--preferring to "reach a consensus," as Bowersock calls it--and because many of the faculty members remain silent during much of the CUE discussions, students often have no idea what faculty members think of their ideas. "We figure if they are quiet," Henderson deducts "they (the professors) don't object...