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...governance; we find it no less repugnant in this case simply because the New York City Council’s action was a resolution and not binding law. Freedom of speech does not only apply to righteous citizens or noble speech for good reason—if we ban one offensive word, what’s to stop a wholesale inquest into our entire language...
...York City’s token ban should be considered for what it is: a symbol. A symbolically easy way to symbolically sweep the problem of recurring racism and America’s hypocritical past under a symbolic rug. Perhaps the resolution allows council-members to go home (or to voters) content, but with or without the “N” word, our society will still be bedeviled with racism. The only things we will lack, if the moratorium stands, is one word in the dictionary and a good chunk of our erstwhile-intact freedom...
...Liechtenstein government spokesman, after 170 Swiss soldiers accidentally wandered into his tiny country "Boy, I'd like to see the state come and try and split us up." HELEN VETTER, 82, who lives out of wedlock with Don Polries, 87, in violation of North Dakota law; six other states ban cohabitation...
...appreciated Ronald K. Kamdem’s comment “Not So Lucky” (Mar. 1). However, saying “The Higher Power of Lucky” was banned “in many school libraries across the country” misleadingly suggests that efforts to ban the book have been common. In fact, librarians choosing not to stock the book (many of whom are making that decision under strong pressure from their communities) are very decidedly in the minority. Far more significant is the fact that the book did, as Kamdem notes, win the Newbery Medal...
There have always been efforts to restrict or ban material from young eyes, but overall, today’s children have access to a range of sophisticated literature that would have seemed astonishing just a few decades ago. This is to the credit of children’s librarians, who routinely and effectively fight censorship...