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Many of Brustein's statements lend themselves to criticism. I am very suspicious of anyone who can condemn "relevant" theatre in the same book in which he cites Aristophanes. Has Brustein forgotten what was happening in Athens in 421, when The Peace was produced? When he cries for an art separated from contemporary events, does he dismiss Guernica, or Quartet for the End of Time, or, for that matter, Slaughterhouse-Five, because they spring out of a revulsion against war and fascism? What are his criteria...
...Ohio Grand Jury that met to consider the shootings, however, was not programmed to accept these possibilities. It had one purpose: to exonerate the Guard. To have done otherwise, as Stone points out, would have been to condemn Rhodes. The political underlings accepted as a matter of course the Governor's complicity in the killings and moved to prevent it from being known. Thus, the chief prosecutor read the FBI report but did not submit it to the Grand Jury. He also neglected to call a number of Guardsmen named in the FBI report who gave testimony contrary...
...CRIMSON tacitly assumes that the antiquity of the custom of class-tree exercises is the only argument in its favor. The intense radical spirit at present prevailing here, which says that all that is old in ways and beliefs is consequently wrong, and whatever new, right, would condemn this plea of antiquity as worse than none, forgetting that change and improvement are not always synonymous terms, any more than antiquity and perfection are. The variety which Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises at the tree...
Clear the Store. The immigrants from the Soviet Union are so disillusioned with Communism, however, that many initially become enthusiastic supporters of Israel's extreme right-wing party Herut. They condemn anything that smacks of socialism, most notably the kibbutzim or cooperative farms...
...last Germany has a government that accepts the realities of World War II. It is very important that we, the Germans, come to terms with our neighbors, especially our eastern neighbors, who were the victims of criminal Nazi terror. The organizations of refugees from the former German territories always condemn Brandt's new Ostpolitik with such ominous terms as "treacherous." I ask only, "Is it treason to accept the realities...