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From this jumble of material in the XR cage, it is difficult to guess what criteria Harvard uses to condemn a book to the XR imprisonment. Sassow admits that there are no written cri- teria for judging XR books, and says there are inconsistencies in the classification. A quick check of the Widener card catalogue illustrates these inconsistencies. Of Widener's 39 books on homosexuality, for example, 30 are kept in the XR cage and nine in the stacks. On the other hand, only 11 of 79 books on prostitution are classified XR. The bias is clearly heterosexual...
...something frightfully obscene and lower considered by Americans to be something frightfully obscene and lower class, is now not such a terrible thing at all. You can talk about it at cocktail parties, tell your friends that you (or someone you know) has tried it, and you can condemn those anachronistic drug laws. The gut re-action most people used to have to pot users -- lumping them together with hard-line heroin addicts and calling the whole lot disgusting--is rapidly vanishing...
...remained for the U.S. to hone speculation to its finest edge, and not surprisingly. "Of all the peoples in history," observed Economist J. Edward Meeker in 1930, "the American people can least afford to condemn speculation. The discovery of America was made possible by a loan based on the collateral of Queen Isabella's crown jewels, and at interest beside which even call-loan interest rates look coy and bashful. Financing an unknown foreigner to sail the unknown deep in three cockleshell boats in the hope of discovering a mythical Zipangu cannot, by the widest exercise of language...
Intellectuals cannot have it both ways, says Anthony Hartley, editor in chief of Interplay, a new magazine on international affairs. "If they applaud the Israeli victory over the Arabs, they cannot then use pacifist arguments to condemn American policy in Viet...
Those who would condemn civil disobedience must face up to the fact that persons who have committed it in the past have not all been eccentric nuts, but have often been clearly vandicated by time. Socrates is one example; he chose to die in behalf of free speech. Gandhi is another; it was his sojourn in South Africa in the 1890's that led him to civil disobedience and arrest, and to the formulation of his theories of non-violent action (ahimsa and satyagraha). He took the view that every citizen is responsible for every act of his government...