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...should examine his own mental health. Dr. Ayd's lack of restraint in fathering twelve children cost him only perhaps a sports car or an expensive vacation. Twelve children born to one of lower economic station can mean absolute destitution and lack of education and opportunity for the blameless offspring. I protest being linked with Hitler just because I choose to limit my own family and to help others do the same...
Arbitration offers the further advantage of privacy. Charges aired in a courtroom can damage a firm's reputation even when it is ultimately found to be blameless. In arbitration, even the loser's good name is safeguarded: hearings are closed to the public and awards are kept secret. As some lawyers see it, the greatest merit of arbitration in business disputes is that experts decide the outcome. In a dispute over faulty workmanship in houses, for example, the A.A.A. panel consisted of an architect, a building-materials manufacturer, and an insurance executive specializing in housing matters. To make...
...army against Indian invaders with a relic of Buddha in his spear. In Viet Nam and elsewhere, Buddhists often took an active part in fighting against colonial powers. During the Korean war, at least some Buddhists were preaching that "to wipe out the American imperialist demons is not only blameless but meritorious." Ignoring the Chinese Communists' cruel persecution of Buddhism in Tibet, some Buddhists reason (as one scholar puts it) that when the Marxists' material needs are satisfied, they will "need something spiritual above and beyond," and that Buddhism will be able to supply it. It is this...
...Negro American citizen, I feel that along with freedom in any society goes responsibility. Our future freedom will be paralleled with grave responsibility from within the Negro race. As professional Negroes we do not stand blameless in view of widespread illegitimacy, misuse of housing by our lower classes, a low level of aspiration among our youth, a high percentage of school dropouts, and shame rather than pride in our ebony skins...
...relations man, writes In Tomorrow's Little Black Bag, which is praise for wonder drugs to come. In High Barbary, Lawrence Durrell satirizes the British Foreign Office, whose delicate young men cannot get a tolerable haircut outside one special shop in London. Freedom, by Mack Reynolds, is a blameless political sermon predicting that the Russians will overthrow Communism because they value intellectual liberty above a high standard of living. Only about half a dozen items show the sciencebased imagination that is the accepted mark of true science fiction. George P. Elliott's Among the Bangs is a humorous...