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...Heartiest congratulations to President Peterson on keeping her cool in the Linda Le Clair affair [April 26]. The problem is not Barnard's, or that of any college. It was produced-and must be accepted by-the adult community. What I rebellious students overlook is the immutable equation that if one would contest the paternalistic supervision of the college, he must accept the legalistic restrictions and moral consequences of society. Even if Linda makes the minor point that some of the residential requirements of the college may trespass upon what she claims as her individual rights, has she proved...
...know what kind of student Linda Le Clair is or what kind of a mistress she makes, but judging from the picture of her apartment, she makes one lousy housekeeper. Doesn't Barnard College have a Home Economics department...
Another defense argument, advanced by James D. St. Clair, Coffin's attorney, is that the value of encouraging as open a public discussion as possible under the First Amendment overbalances the relatively harmless violation of draft regulations. (St. Clair himself, a lecturer on law at Harvard, is a veteran of liberal campaigns. He was one of Joseph Welch's chief aides in the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954.) To convict the five men, St. Clair said, would have the effect of "chilling" debate on the draft and the war by raising the menace of Federal prosecution...
...specific information to substantiate the existence of the anti-draft conspiracy. The lawyers pressed particularly to discredit the government's depiction of the alleged conspiracy's size. "Anything that happened within the nation--I would assume all 50 states--could come with in the purview of this indictment," St. Clair said. Leonard Boudin, Spock's sad-eyed attorney, was particularly critical of the indictment's supposed vagueness...
...originality. Instead of the usual chronological sequence of song groups by Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Wolf, Debussy, and so on, her program was divided between Cantata No. 51 of J.S. Bach ("Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"), setting by various composers of Goethe's "Rastlose Liebe" and Paul Verlaine's "Clair de lune," along with the cycle On This Island by Benjamin Britten to poetry of W. H. Auden...