Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissent was unusually bitter. Condemning the "blunderbuss fashion" in which the majority acted, Justice Tom Clark blazed that "no court has ever reached out so far to destroy so much with so little." The argument of vagueness is flimsy, he continued, since the language of Feinberg "obviously springs from" such federal statutes as the Smith Act, which the court has previously upheld. He added that the decision's wording is so broad that henceforth no state will feel safe in making loyalty requirements. "The majority has swept away one of our most precious rights- the right of self-preservation...
Their squeamishness, some analysts think, stems from an old argument among army officers that many observers thought Lin had settled years ago. In the late 1950's, many professional officers, including the Defense Minister at that time, P'eng Tehhuai, complained that the PLA was asked to spend too much time bringing in harvests and building dams. The officers wanted to build a crack modern army and felt too little time was left for military training. China, they thought, should swallow its pride and a little ideology and accept Russian help in building modern weapons stockpiles, including atomic bombs...
...grand theme-a Tolstoyan war, a Flaubertian passion, a Jamesian conflict of cultures. The Ne gro revolution, at once violent and vital, agonizing and altruistic, could provide such a theme. Novelist Ann Fairbairn tries to tackle it in this ambitious, achingly overwritten epic. The result is a compelling argument for instant Black Power-if only to avert a sequel...
Joys of Grass. Bolstering this familiar argument are 400-plus pages of statements, essays, papers, adulatory fiction and documentary evidence, some of which are impressive, some simply a drag. Composer-Writer Paul Bowles is present with a marihuana morality tale, and so are Baudelaire and Rabelais-under one name or another marihuana has been around for thousands of years. Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg weighs in with an essay on the joys of grass, which he wrote while smoking the stuff. It is safe to report that marihuana does not noticeably affect Ginsberg's literary style: he is as opaque...
...most comprehensive defense argument comes from the famed 1944 La Guardia Report, written by responsible scientists and sociologists (though heavily attacked by the A.M.A. at the time). The report concluded that marihuana is not addictive, deleterious to mental or physical health, or the cause of psychotic or criminal behavior. Some more recent medical and statistical evidence also suggests that pot smokers are euphoric and generally agreeable under the influence, suffer no hangovers, and are no more likely to turn into drug addicts than are users of whisky or tobacco. On the other hand, marihuana can precipitate a psychosis in unstable...