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...thousands of Canadian and American Mortons descended from Ephriam, George, Nathanial and our Thomas. They were not simply being "Puritanical" and self-righteous in their attacks against the scoundrel of Merry Mount. Perhaps one reason for their contempt of him was that he was not related to our "saintly" family. That he was well educated and an aristocrat may also have had some bearing on the fact that, with Governor Bradford, they drove him from the colony. Furthermore, trading booze with the Indians made him a total menace to the Pilgrims, who were heavy drinkers...
Suddenly, during Ryan's summation, police arrested John Pennington '68-4, National Secretary of SDS, and charged him with contempt of court. Then, after cutting Ryan off for the last time, Viola ordered the courtroom cleared. As one or two plainclothesmen ushered the coterie of Harvard officials into a safe corner, Ryan's witnesses and 75 spectators were forcefully driven out and away from the courtroom building. During the mel?c, police seized three other spectators on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to assault and battery on a policeman. All four arrested now face prison terms...
Subpoenaed to testify in a murder trial. Writer Truman Capote played hard to get and got himself slapped with a $500 fine and a three-day jail sentence for what the judge called "plain old contempt." Capote wheeled up to do his time in a black Mercedes, a blue suit and shades. "I've been in 30 or 40 jails and prisons," boasted the author of In Cold Blood, "but this is the first time I'll ever be in one as a prisoner." Eighteen hours later he was sprung, after his doctor expressed "apprehension" about Truman...
...spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere-mutilation of spontaneity, of joy in learning, of sense of self. Because adults take the schools so much for granted, they fail to appreciate what grim, joyless places most American schools are . . . what contempt they unconsciously display for children...
...what end? The new urban guerrilla talks in vague terms about building a new world. When pressed, he usually describes that world in Marxist terms (although Marxism considers itself "scientific" and by and large holds "romantic" terrorists in contempt). Beyond some immediate goals, like preserving a particular piece of real estate from "exploitation" or "imperialism," the urban guerrilla has little to say about the shape of the future. Says Political Scientist Richard