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...offender as to secure the state against gross official misdemeanors." Charles Evans Hughes, writing in 1928, agreed that "according to the weight of opinion, impeachable offenses include, not merely acts that are indictable, but serious misbehavior." The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, in a cogent committee study issued last month, is the latest to conclude that "acts that undermine the integrity of government are appropriate grounds whether or not they happen to constitute offenses under the general criminal...
...more cogent criticism of Beethoven is that, at least in his late works, his art is elite, accessible only to a few, and therefore that it helps maintain divisions within society. Late in his life, Leo Tolstoy wrote that "great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone." He condemned Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (though not his Fifth) because he felt it was exclusive. Tolstoy thought it would bring those people "specially trained to submit themselves to its complex hypnotism" together and divide them from the rest of mankind. In Tolstoy...
...theory of genetic inequality, Prof. R.J. Herrnstein would do well to answer his most competent critics, rather than the oversimplifications and innacuracies he selects for attack in his Crimson article of Nov. 27. That article is addressed to almost every peripheral issue, but is notably barren of cogent argument addressed to the central point: are differences between human beings caused primarily by environment, or primarily by heredity...
Lenin's analysis of imperialism was cogent and accurate in many respects, but it was flawed in one critical way. Lenin saw that imperialism benefited only the capitalist class, and he assumed, following Marx, that the working class of European countries would recognize their bonds with each other and with the Third World. Thus they would prevent the outbreak of the coming war. Events initially seemed to bear him out: as the tempo of international crisis in the early years of the century became more brisk, the Second International of European socialist parties proudly and defiantly passed resolutions calling upon...
...reading, writing and, more subtly, the roles they will later play as adult men and women. In reaction, feminists around the country have, for the past few years, been mounting a headlong attack on publishers and school boards. This fall, through a combination of legal actions, political pressure and cogent research papers, the liberationists are beginning to win a few skirmishes, though not the war, against sex stereotyping in schoolbooks...