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Many addicts themselves are fed up with the programs, Dole and Nyswander contend, largely because of the rigidity of the bureaucratic rules and the indifference and sometimes contempt of clinic staffs. The result: "The great majority of heroin addicts remain on the streets, and the programs have lost their ability to attract them to treatment...
This stance was unacceptable to the committee. Hellman offered to testify about herself, and in doing so, waived her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. She could be held in contempt for failing to answer any other questions. When she actually appeared before the committee on May 21, 1952, she compromised her position. She took the Fifth Amendment on almost every question, incriminating herself by not incriminating herself, for the sake of decency. The cleverness of her lawyer and the ineptitude of the Committee members enabled Hellman's letter to be read into the public record. One month later, when...
...neither the futurists nor their adherents have ever been able to agree on a unified vision. The fault may lie not with the stargazers, but with the public. As Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni observes: "Too often we oscillate between blind faith and cynical contempt for futurologists. It might help to realize that like other professionals, their qualities vary; and while the more reputable ones are in evitably better than no help at all, no one owns a clear crys tal ball...
More important than the book's moral--if it has one--is the presence of Agnew's old, anti-liberal venom. Though he has scrapped his polysyllabic, alliterative invectives, Agnew still displays contempt for students, activists, professors, welfare mothers and the rest of that crew. He displays his feelings about the media, and about Jews, with special gusto...
This approach seemed calculated not merely to ask for trouble but require it. If she agreed to talk about herself, Hellman waived Fifth Amendment protection and invited a contempt citation and jail because of her silence about others. Her lover Dashiell Hammett, who had just served a prison term for contempt, warned her that she was courting a martyrdom much worse than she imagined. He scolded, "Just remember there are rats in jail, and tough dykes, and people who will push you hard just because they like it, and guards who won't admire you, and food...