Word: expressing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...displaying a red flag or wearing black armbands?come under First Amendment protection. Yet it has sidestepped the issue of whether laws specifically forbidding abuse of the American flag are valid. Says Burt Neuborne of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Our position is that any person attempting to express a political idea is protected by the First Amendment. The flag is entitled to no protection. Certainly the burning or mutilating of the flag will affect some people's sensibilities, but it should not be the basis for a criminal prosecution...
...takes a lot of gumption these days to make a film that does not pander to youthful passion, express the abysmal views of a gloomy philosopher-director or explore assorted perversions in nude, sweaty detail. Particularly risky is the idea of filming an old-fashioned Hitchcockian murder mystery in all its creaking intricacy. That is precisely what French Director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise) has done in Rider on the Rain...
...That the University should not express views on political issues-a point which has been much argued over the years-is the principle of chief concern to me. I feel strongly that the long range health of this and other universities depends on observing...
Many liberals agreed that it was not the function of the Harvard Faculty to express its formal opinion. When the vote came, however, in a medium-sized Faculty meeting, the remaining liberals and a large number of non-caucus Faculty members combined to defeat the convocation proposal by a single vote. The resolution against the war was passed, but was insignificant compared to the implications of the convocation vote...
...soon as the class graduates, it falls into the hands of the alumni association, the leaders of which have got to be from Boston, and have got to be involved with money. So you end up with the State Street or insurance types almost, by definition after all the express purpose of the 25th reunion is to get money from the fat cats...