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...condemn drug use as illegal or dangerous is one thing, but to condemn all the students who have experimented with drugs as wasting their time at Harvard, is quite another. We can only hope that the new Monro Doctrine does not represent a change in University policy towards drug-users and that it is only a meaningless sop thrown to the Food and Drugs investigators...
...Much Force?" [March 24] is a germane question. However, I submit two thoughts: 1) It is not difficult for Monday-morning quarterbacks to condemn a police officer who, under great physical and emotional stress and in deadly combat with a deranged man, uses his service revolver to defend himself and the community he serves; but 2) it is difficult to understand why the public consistently vetoes improvements in training, salary and working conditions that would attract qualified applicants to the police service...
Rustin also commented on the recent exclusion of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.) from his seat in Congress. "Although I questioned his behavior, I must condemn the emotional and unconstitutional behavior of congress in the matter," he said. Whether Congress excluded Powell from racist motives is immaterial, Rustin said. What matters is that Negroes interpret it as racism, he explained...
Furthermore, city planners often condemn Reston by judging it aesthetically as some sort of pastoral anachronism. The automobile is missing; Simon has carefully wound his parking areas behind the houses and the town center. But to the planner, this seems a negation of the automobile's existence. And the Lake Anne center, with its yellow brick walls and walks and clay chimneys reflected in the lake looks too much like an Italian fishing village to belong in the age of plastics, steel, and pre-stressed concrete. To some urban designers, Reston appears to deny the visual, as well...
Sorry, French wonks and sports fans. The movie concerns a lady who takes one too many lovers, the fatal lover her stepson. That plot may be the plot of La Curee. But Vadim's treatment of the lady is highly un-Zolaesque. He doesn't condemn her as an unfortunate being who, because she slipped off the straight and narrow, can only slither around miserably. His treatment isn't an indictment. It's a celebration...