Word: repression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loevinger, 54, a former Justice Department trustbuster who barely conceals his contempt for television ("the literature of the illiterate") or for the FCC itself. "I think," he once told a congressional committee, "that there is grave danger that the commission is going to be so busy trying to repress yesterday's technological advances that we will still be working on them by the time they are replaced by tomorrow's technological advances...
...reply, Califano said the Selective Service System "is not an instrument to repress and punish unpopular views." He said the system does not "vest in draft boards the judicial role in determining the legality of individual conduct...
...this comes the current pattern of dissent which disturbs _the President and many other Americans. For 185 years, perhaps no other country has given more legal protection to dissenters than the U.S. Every effort to repress dissent has, in the long run, brought an enlargement of the rights of free speech and press. Even in the most strained times, few intelligent Americans have attacked dissent as disloyalty. Given the U.S. proposition, no shade of opinion is unpatriotic-unless it advocates violence or overthrow of the Government. Unhappily, a few extreme dissenters tend toward that direction: that some assault the impregnable...
...them the Nobel Prize in Medicine, no one had ever been able to provide direct laboratory proof that their concept was correct. Now the evidence has begun to come in. Harvard University scientists have succeeded in isolating and analyzing two of the Hitherto theoretical substances that repress gene activity...
...statement of principles that blistered Pike for his "offensive" and "irresponsible" utterances - meaning his skepticism about such doctrines as the Virgin Birth and the Trinity. At the same time, the house deplored the notion of a heresy trial as a "throwback to cen turies when the law sought to repress and penalize unacceptable opinions...