Word: knowingly
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Human affairs are complicated. I can imagine young readers turning away in weary disgust from such will be--ought to be--a "middle-aged" decade, one not driven by the immediate needs of youth, nor preoccupied with slogans, nor dazzled by the claims of self. The population, we know, will get older in the next ten years, and that will bring its own challenges. But if middle-aged folk lack the impulse for change and criticism, they may partially compensate for this defect by talents for making things work. And we live in a system that desperately needs to learn...
Davis said he does not know the contents of the letters. "I felt a little awkward about reading them," he commented. "They were kind of personal...
...liberal justice could replace him, but he recognized his ill health and retired, less than a week after the conference the authors describe. Douglas knew when his time was up, and if an aged hero tried to stretch his usefulness a few months, so what? Do we need to know that he stank in the process...
...reasonable to believe that the "eight file drawers" of documents and "more than 200" sources really add up to what he reports. All the relevations are believable, even predictable, but why print them? Justice Potter Stewart said in a 1964 decision that he could not define pornography. "But I know it when I see it," his decision concludes. Since the Constitution does little to outline how much flesh is protected by the first amendment, and since the Court history on the issue has been a hodge-podge of fairly feeble arguments--from "utterly without redeeming social value" to the more...
...popular appeal of this reasoning, which the sociobiologists have nurtured, is that an explication of the biological determinants of human social behavior will guide us in molding society. Thus, arguing from this line of thinking, Wilson states that: "We already know...that the worlds of William Graham Sumner, the absolute social Darwinist, and Mikhail Bakumn, the anarchist, are biologically impossible." (On Human Nature) This is nothing more than scientific rubbish being used to justify and reinforce popular prejudice...