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...would have thought that by now Jeffrey Vanke understood the difference between "libel"--which he accused us of perpetuating against him in his letter of April 6--and a candid process of free speech. We trust that by now Jeffrey Vanke has learned that "dialogue" need not be limited to the intellectual equivalent of the tea parlor. Foreclosing dialogue is not our game, Mr. Vanke, and not one white member of the Harvard community who has interacted with either of us regarding America's tragic racial-caste and Negrophobic legacy will support Mr. Vanke's anti-dialogue charge against...
Even when he practiced a kind of documentary photography, Callahan made personal and social realities indistinguishable. In 1950 he started taking candid close-ups of pedestrians, mostly women, in downtown Chicago. He would approach them without letting his camera show, then suddenly point their way and snap. What he found each time was a look of troubled introspection, the face as an anatomy of melancholy. Their eyes are veiled. Bits of jewelry bristle around their necks and ears in defensive perimeters. Yet while all background detail has been excluded from these pictures--the head fills almost the entire frame--they...
...book provided clear language and diagrams, which appealed to women who had felt that for years information about their bodies, not to mention disease, childbearing, contraception and abortion, had been kept from public discussion. The information in OBOS was candid and accessible, and proved to be in such high demand that in the following months the founders began to realize that the material they were compiling was becoming an indispensable resource for women. As requests for the book flooded in, the founders joked that one day they would sell a million copies. As of last week, the book has sold...
...good exchange," Rudenstine said in an interview. "We were both very candid. I said what I thought; they said what they thought. It was not at all acrimonious. It was very friendly...
...JOHN PERRY Barlow's piece, ''Thinking Locally, Acting Globally'' [ESSAY, Jan. 15], criticizing online censorship. CompuServe's decision to censor speech has deprived millions of users. Around the world, homosexuals rely on the banned newsgroups for support and guidance. Many of the other newsgroups discuss adult subjects in a candid manner. In the information age, censorship is not what is required; common sense is. People need to know what is on the Internet and accept its presence. If Germany can censor CompuServe, what will protect other online service providers from facing similar restrictions? MARTY R. PAZ Las Vegas...