Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom. Perhaps the best argument against the commissioners is that the eight pioneering judges of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Michigan have done so well without them. Twenty years ago, the Michigan court's Detroit branch banished commissioners because they had become too chummy with bail bondsmen; worse, they often went easier on the clients of crony lawyers, while hiking bail astronomically in response to public pressure whenever grisly crimes hit the headlines...
...Pius' personal anguish over Nazi atrocities. Friedlander also quotes from a long letter that the Pope wrote to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing in 1943 suggesting that an open protest would do no good, since it would only stir Hitler to worse evils. He includes the argument made by Vatican diplomats that for Pius to attack Hitler during the war would involve German Catholics in a crisis of confidence, and would be open to one-sided exploitation by Allied propaganda...
Perhaps it is not all so terrible after all, he continued. "If one is willing to accept the finger-in-the-dike argument in support of any spot of literacy, there is some small justification for every magazine." While waiting for that spot, "we editors shall simply have to endure, talking to ourselves and our faithful little bands of subscribers...
...centerpiece of this issue is clearly Noam Chomsky's "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," adapted from a talk he gave to the Hillel Foundation here in March. It is fruitless to attempt a sentence-two precis of Chomsky's 15-page argument. I will say only that the world-reknowned linguist has constructed the most coherent and moving defense I have read of the "moral" perspective in politics...
...most standards, this is inflation. Yet at the same time, those who looked closely at the figures could find room for argument. Food costs, which up to now had been leading the index upward, were stable in April. Major factors in the increase were the restoration of federal excise taxes on autos and telephone service plus recent hikes in mortgage interest rates. Thus, anti-inflationary measures were actually inflating the cost of living...