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Similarly, the fate of the Bengalis slaughtered last March and April mattered little in Nixon's calculations. Now there is a full-scale war in the Indian subcontinent, and another is brewing in the Middle East. Nixon may condemn India and North Vietnam, but he will not gain his "generation of peace" by invoking faded morality or by varying the quantity and kind of bombs dropped...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: Even the Pawn Must Hold a Grudge | 12/17/1971 | See Source »

...contraception, the theologians have undermined its moral force as a barrier to nonmarital sex. Milhaven himself believes that, instead of laying down dogmatic rules, the church should use the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology, as a guide in counseling individuals with sexual conflicts. Generally, he finds far more reason to condemn adultery than premarital sex. A more cautious new moralist, Catholic University's Charles Curran, concedes that sex outside marriage might be justified, but only in "quite limited" cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Commandment: Thou Shalt Not | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...condemn as dangerous and unscientific, the racist, sexist, and anti-working class theories of genetic inferiority propagated by R. Herrnstein, W. Schockley and A. Jensen. There is no scientific warrant for ascribing to genetic factors the oppressed conditions of classes and ethnic groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCIENTIFIC WARRANT | 12/8/1971 | See Source »

...condemn the irresponsible support of such unfounded conclusions by the Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Educational Review, and the New York Times Magazine, through publication and wide dissemination of them, especially in view of the destructive political uses to which such views...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCIENTIFIC WARRANT | 12/8/1971 | See Source »

...When will the allied victors of the second World War finally drop their saviors-of-the-world complex? After Viet Nam, what American can afford to condemn Japanese conduct during World War II? After Dutch treatment of Indonesians, what Dutchman can afford to throw a thermos bottle at Emperor Hirohito [Oct. 18]? The mentality behind such acts is the same as the arrogance that leads certain people to refer to policemen as "pigs." "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" (John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1971 | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

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