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Reviewing the legal precedents for a decision in either direction, Macaulay decided Fanny Hill "goes far beyond and substantially beyond customary limits of candor and makes persistent appeals to shameful and morbid interests in prolonged, detailed and florid descriptions of sexual activities;" he also asserted his agreement with the dissent in the 4-3 New York Court of Appeals decision that the book is protected by the First Amendment...
Packaging v. Product. A similar demand for doctrinal caution is voiced by Pike in his recent A Time for Christian Candor. He argues that the church keeps the treasure of its revelation in "earthly vessels," and that it is idolatry to accept as eternally true what is only historically conditioned. He suggests that Christianity abandon the notion of the Trinity, which has now become a pagan tritheism instead of what the church fathers intended to say. To avoid confusion of the "packaging" with the "product," Pike would do away with all spatial images of God, everything that suggests a distinction...
...Whether it also "goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor" to the point of "patent offensiveness...
...candor that has marked his political career also jars with the usual image of a politician. When he first ran for the Senate in 1954, he disregarded the advice of the professionals and attacked Senator Joseph McCarthy. Branded by some members of his own party "Stalin's candidate," he won by the narrowest margin in New Jersey's history. When Sherman Adams was under investigation, Case bluntly advised his old friend to resign; they have never communicated since...
Certainly Robert Kennedy is an ambitious man, but so are most politicians, though most display less candor than he. But ambition does not preclude excellence; if anything, it encourages it. Kennedy knows very well that should he ever seek the Presidency he must amass a Senate record of extraordinary strength. He must represent his nation and his state as best...