Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From your placement of the story on abortion laws [Feb. 10], it appears that this is a religious question. Then why is it being fought in legislatures? Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Laws cannot be discussed exclusive of morality, but this argument begins to sound like a case of "Well, if we can't enforce our views on morality by theological methods, then we'll enforce them legally." Thanks, but I'll go to hell...
...imagination in outlining how the proletariat should act at home, in offices, restaurants, trains and even on luxury liners. "Don't yawn when you are bored," she urges. "Just say politely, 'Sorry, this subject is so distant from me that I do not follow your argument.' " As for loud belching, that is "the peak of tactlessness-but if you do it, say quietly 'Pardon me' and don't go into further detail on how it happened." Though she lives in a country where bourgeois dress was long shunned in favor of workers' baggy...
...book restates McLuhan's increasingly familiar argument: the introduction of the alphabet 3,000 years ago, abetted by Gutenberg's introduction of movable print in the 15th century, turned mankind into the alphas and omegas of a giant cultural alphabet soup. The "seamless" and communal thought processes of tribal, preliterate man were fragmented; perception itself took on the rigid, abecedarian character of writing. Letters led to the "idea," which required structure-beginning, middle, end-and forced the writer or reader out of immediate experience and into an abstracted, objective remove from "group reality." According to McLuhan, the advent...
...America has simply too great a wealth of human resources to justify a procedure based on the premise that a loss of some portion of its students would be catastrophic. The other argument--that people in college deserve to be there--is beside the point. In no sense is it moral to use the draft to separate those who are too precious to be sent to war from those considered acceptable cannon fodder. Of course, there are times when a nation must ignore moral principles and worry about self-preservation. Now is not such a time. Because of its clear...
Department of Defense officials maintain that the volunteer army would cost $17 billion a year. Some observers also feel that a volunteer army would soon become an army composed largely of Negroes -- shifting the burden of military service onto a minority group. There is also the argument that a volunteer army -- a professional army -- would be a seedbed for a Seven Days in May-style putsch...