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...indeed so tenuous that it could be destroyed by the mere exhibition of pornography, then it is not worth saving. But a far more important issue to me is what underlies Vizzard's reasoning. Axiomatic to his viewpoint is an absolute notion of corruptness of luridness. I deny this axiom, at least for most sexual matters. Whatever my personal reactions to its moral implications, pornography seems to me to be nevertheless one coherent view, among many, of human existence. To ban it is tantamount to banning nonconformist lifestyles...
According to the axiom that it's darkest right before dawn, a huge sunbeam should encompass the Indoor Athletic Building Monday morning. Harvard's weekend basketball hopes are about as dim as the overhead lighting in the antiquated sports complex...
...police patrolling in squad cars really cut the crime rate? Newly named FBI Director Clarence Kelley decided to test the long-accepted axiom last year when he was chief of police in Kansas City, Mo. Kelley selected three urban areas that had similar crime and population patterns. In one, all cruising squad car patrols were eliminated; the second was covered by five cars, just as it had been before the experiment; the third area was flooded with 15 cars. The year-long experiment, which ended in October, indicates that patrol cars have no significant effect on crime. In each...
...still has much to celebrate at this season: a recovering economy, a calming of the national temper, the beginnings, at least, of a global detente. Moreover, it is an axiom that, if the good news from Viet Nam is never as good as claimed, the bad news is never as bad as feared. The negotiations may yet be salvaged, but the Administration's severe setback in Paris, the persistent absence of peace, the inability to free the prisoners by Christmas-all these remain bitter blows. They are also reminders that the Viet Nam War seems to have the durability...
...this, I mean the tedious reproduction of lived life naturalism, as opposed to the rich tradition of European Realism, which exaggerated human experience, celebrated a wide historical consciousness, and reconciled real conditions with desire. No reader, to whom what is actual is anathema, would quarrel with Osip Mandelstam's axiom that "The only thing that is real is the work itself;" when he concludes, though, that the artist "desires no other paradise than existence," Mandelstam reveals the divergence between readers and artists. Existence, which to the writer is a paradise, is to the reader a veritable hell. Without the writer...