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...article entitled "We Are a Sick Nation," Nkosi wrote that a government of "massive coercion" rules South Africa and that "morality itself has been annulled and color morality has been substituted in it splace...
...President, according to Professor Martin, "must greet and support men and governments that flagrantly violate Christian and democratic principles." He must use coercion in the interest of order, "participate in the dissemination of propaganda that is at best only partially true and is, moreover, the stuff that feeds suspicion and hate." He must also be tolerant, and "faith loses force as tolerance grows." Concludes Martin: "It follows that a determined Christian would be a weak President and that a strong President must be (and historically has been) a weak Christian...
Four months after the Federal Trade Commission accused him of boosting his $45 million-a-year business by deception and coercion (TIME, April 11), Dancer Arthur Murray cha-chaed his way out of the jam, hardly stubbing his toes. He agreed last week to an FTC consent order "to cease and desist" the practices, thus avoided a tough day in court and the prospect of even more damaging publicity. In exchange, the FTC closed its case...
...group is within its rights to protest against a book, magazine or film, says Lacy, provided it limits itself to protesting and does not attempt coercion without due process of law, such as by boycott or the circulation of a blacklist under the "color of authority" provided by an attorney general or police official. Such extralegal activities inevitably open the door for doctrinal and political pressures: "The Legion of Decency warns against a film like Bette Davis' Storm Center because its heroine is a librarian who refuses to remove a Communist book from the shelves. Films like The Miracle...
More important than this danger of doctrinal coercion is the fact, according to Lacy, that most of the reform groups warn against pornography but do little or nothing to bring about good reading. Whatever corrupts youth, "it is not the reading of words by John O'Hara or D. H. Lawrence or Vladimir Nabokov or, for that matter, Grace Metalious." In fact, it is the youngsters' very "inability to do sustained reading, frustrating the youth at school and cutting off a major avenue of escape from the limits of what is usually a mean and sordid environment, that...