Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court silently refused to review PRAY's appeal from Judge Friendly's decision. Though it signifies neither approval nor disapproval, the court's action suggests that it has no intention of reconsidering its original prayer decisions-a move for which PRAY's "voluntary" argument might have opened the way. As a result, the only prayers still permissible in U.S. public schools are those that a student says to himself...
...modern Iran that in recent years the author has "found it inadvisable to live in Iran." His second book is a ferocious satire that attacks a fundamental assumption of civilization: the concept of justice. Composed in remarkably stylish English, The Beggar presents in an appalling parable the ancient argument of mercy: that one man's guilt is shared by all men inextricably, that punishment is itself a crime. The parable...
...demands of military leaders that the Communist Party be outlawed for its sponsorship of the Sept. 30 coup attempt. Meanwhile, outside the capital in the hundreds of islands that form the Indonesian archipelago, individual army units and bands of violently anti-Communist Moslems were reportedly working to make the argument academic...
...first argument is a valid one. The embarrassment and ill will that would be generated by such a procedure would far outweigh the advantages of telling all. No personal comments should appear in the published report. The second argument, however, is less valid. Just as a newspaper reporter must get his point across without printing "off the record" information, the HPC need not violate confidence. And certainly, if department members are uncooperative, the HPC can obtain information easily enough elsewhere. In this University, little can be hidden from an industrious digger...
...most important argument for releasing the HPC's conclusions is that they may have little effect on hostile department chairmen if they remain unpublished. Chances are that the recommendations--and the will of the student body--will never be incorporated into departmental policy unless the recommendations are widely known. Only by publishing its reports can the HPC hope to prod the departments toward needed reforms...