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...they don't like it, then they have no sense of humor, really," Stillman adds. "We're pretty blunt," Jacklin says...
Says Arbor House Editor Ann S. Harris, "Its humor is the sort [young people] will respond to: blunt, fresh and down to earth." She adds, "We think it has a built-in audience...
...what Jus tice Holmes called "the felt necessities of the time." Such a task is delicate, to be undertaken with reverence for established principle and the slow evolution of fundamental rights. If the court becomes a mere political instrument, it will lose its legitimacy; if the Justices become the blunt tools of the Presidents who appoint them their judgments will be just as transitory It is reassuring that, once ensconced in the high court, so many of the Brethren develop a higher loyalty. - By Evan Thomas...
...nuclear arsenals. The implication of this analysis, Coles writes, is that certain people are not facing up to the reality of the nuclear arms race, and have instead "resorted to what are often called 'primitive psychological defense mechanisms,' presumably unworthy of intelligent, thoughtful individuals." You are, in more blunt words, either scared out of your wits by nuclear nightmares, or you are blocking out reality...
...being appears at the instant of conception. The teaching is that precisely because no one knows when the soul enters the body (or in secular terms, when the fetus becomes a person), the baby-to-be should be given the benefit of the doubt and be fully protected. One blunt analogy: no one would think it morally correct to heave a grenade into a room that is probably empty but just might have a human being in it, so why destroy a fetus that might be a person...