Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head off a threatened police raid, and L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, denounced Russell-a Roman Catholic convert-for his "perverted marriage of sex, violence and blasphemy." Says Russell: "They miss the point totally. The Devils is about the way church and state worked together to condemn an innocent man. These things actually happened. The critics don't like to recognize this, and they don't like it treated as I have treated it." A few do, however. A beleaguered minority have praised Russell's imagination, powerful pictorial sense and flair for heightened drama...
Nonetheless, a profligate inclusiveness tends to drain the phrase "political prisoner" of its specific (and still valid) meaning. To accept the idea that all black prisoners are political is to condemn implicitly the laws that sent them to prison and to suggest that they all be freed. But since an overwhelming majority of the victims of black crime are black, and since most blacks, in or out of ghettos, obey the law, the release of all black prisoners might strike law-abiding Negroes as a subtle kind of redoubled racism. Moreover, in demanding Angela's freedom, radicals forget that...
...which nobody uses money to make other people do what they otherwise would not do. It also assumes that in this Utopia all sexual partners give themselves freely out of love for one another. But even if such an ideal state really existed, would it be fair to condemn anyone who failed to live up to the ideal? To condemn, that is, the soldier far from home, the traveling salesman, the frightened student, and the old and the ugly and the neurotic-all the victims of circumstance or life's perversities? Prostitution at best makes no pretense of being...
...people who live in ghettos, but when we start doing it on the moon, there is something obscene in it." While that judgment may be too harsh, it does point up the difficulties NASA faces in trying to rewin public support. Critics damn the astronauts for their taciturnity but condemn them when the space voy- agers display any hint of exuberant...
...accorded aggression the status of a separate instinct. He also related it to his theory of a death instinct. Five eminent analysts had been invited to make major presentations on aggression at a plenary session, and most of their long discussion was devoted to what critics of psychoanalysis condemn as abstruse theorizing...