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...concepts are startling?and disturbing. Conflict between parents and children is biologically inevitable. Children are bora deceitful. All human acts???even saving a stranger from drowning or donating a million dollars to the poor?may be ultimately selfish. Morality and justice, far from being the triumphant product of human progress, evolved from man's animal past, and are securely rooted in the genes...
...such sadistic acts???expressions of what moral philosophers would call sheer evil?be explained satisfactorily by poverty and deprivation? What is it in our society that produces such mindless rage? Was the 19th century French criminologist Jean Lacassagne right when he observed that "societies have the criminals they deserve"? Or has the whole connection between crime and society been exaggerated...
...indictment's strong implication that, at the least, Nixon had learned from Dean on March 21 of the illegal payoffs to defendants and had failed to cut them off. St. Clair's remarks sought to set the Rodino committee members off on a potentially divisive squabble over defining impeachable acts???a point on which St. Clair knows the Congressmen hold sharp differences. St. Clair was trying to strengthen Nixon's oft-repeated claim that the institution of his office, rather than his personal fate, was the overriding issue in the impeachment controversy...
...Negro revolution is presently characterized by acts???at lunch counters, on the streets, behind prison bars. But these acts would be far less effective were it not for words?the words of the U.S. Constitution, of constitutional amendments, of judges, and acts of Congress, words given the force of law by presidential fiat. In the beginning, such words held Negroes in enslavement. From time to time, they slowed the Negro's march toward legal equality. Today, they are the license for action. Some key words in the long progression...
...JUAN?A Play in Three Acts???James Elroy Flecker?Knopf ($2). This bit will be of interest to those who esteem Flecker's genius of the first order, and to whom even an incomplete sketch from his pen is of value. In the first scene of the play there is a shipwreck. The stage in complete darkness, a shrieking wind carries terror to reader or audience; the lights of a pitching steamer appear and on the instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine...