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...further responsibility for the My Lai disaster should be established by trials of some of Calley's superiors. The big picture, though, may never be illuminated by a court. Military courts, for example, may not try men who have left the service or even compel their testimony to much avail. Also, it is impractical to ask a military jury of career officers to judge command practices in Viet Nam when their verdict could affect their chances of promotion and the morale of the whole Army. Calley's jurors dealt solely with his case; that was a tough enough task...
...chance of getting in the first place." As for the demand that women should get equal pay for equal work, Greer thinks it is much ado about little. The hard fact is that women very seldom do equal work. This is partly their own fault. "Opportunities have been made available to women far beyond their desires to use them. [And] the women who avail themselves of opportunities too often do so in a feminine, filial, servile fashion." Why? Because women's energy "is systematically deflected from birth to puberty, so that when they come to maturity they have only...
...Joke Box. The usual vending machine too often acts as if designed only to inhale coins; disgorging candy, soft drinks or peanuts seems beyond its capabilities. On an average day in any city, scores of people can be observed speaking harshly to the armless bandits to no avail. Comes now a machine that talks back. It tells jokes...
...exploit the animal and plant kingdoms presumably to increase the glory of the Lord. What makes Cardinal Villot and his followers think that a cheetah or a dolphin or a sequoia is less of a glory of God than the products of overpopulation: wars, crimes, drug addiction? Of what avail is freedom if there is no clear water, clean air, forests and no wildlife? Where then can future generations be free, and whose glory will they sing...
Five young string players stayed up all night in a Manhattan hotel room playing Schubert and Brahms, the grumbling of the management to no avail. The next morning, along with half a hundred others, they assembled at Carnegie Hall for a rehearsal with Conductor-Violinist Alexander ("Sasha") Schneider. "It's not warm enough," said Schneider after a few bars, and he was not referring to Carnegie's central heating. That afternoon, they were all downtown at The New School rehearsing chamber music. "Your pizzicato sounds terribly dry," complained Violinist Felix Galimir to a group in one classroom...