Word: arguments
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...Logically, this argument is strong," continued the judge. But logic "is a minion of the law, not its master." More important, such exemption aids "the general welfare, apart from any benefit that religious organizations derive from it." Many church activities bring "substantial benefit to the community, such as aid to the poor and aged, day nurseries, care of the sick, and efforts to eliminate racial inequalities. Programs such as these serve public needs; the performance of these functions by private agencies saves the state the expense of providing the same services...
Preoccupied Voices. The Johnson Administration was acutely aware of the potential for-and the peril of-inflation. Among other things, the Treasury Department raised the interest on U.S. Savings Bonds from 3.75% to 4.15%. Only last month, when such a step was under discussion, the argument in favor was that it would make Government bonds more competitive with others, thereby bringing in added revenues; there seemed to be little thought of using it as an anti-inflationary measure. When the interest increase was announced last week, all the emphasis was on anti-inflation: raising the rate, it was argued, would...
Occasionally, Farmer refuses to let facts dilute a good argument. He claims that last year's Watts riot "probably could have been contained by police restraint," though Watts really boiled over only after Los Angeles police pulled out of the ghetto for hours in hopes that it would cool off. Similarly, in an overlong section on the failings of U.S. policy in Africa, he mentions "the recent visit" of Red China's Mao Tse-tung, though Mao has never been near the place. But Farmer's talent, after all, lies in leading, not writing...
Having people actually do things, rather than just read about them, has been anathema around here for quite awhile. The usual argument against 'practical' courses asserts that Harvard is a liberal arts College and that therefore mere 'technical training' would sidetrack students from their main educational concerns, sullying the snowy white linen of pure scholarship...
Even if courses like Hum 105 or the Visual Studies courses offered at the Carpenter Center were only technical training, in the narrowest sense, this argument would have at best shaky validity. The process is as important as the plan in any of the arts, even if the concern is only with analysis. A practical knowledge of metre and rhyme is essential to adept poetic analysis, as is knowledge of brushstrokes to the criticism of painting or a knowledge of staging to dramatic criticism...