Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular writer attempting to become a 'true poet,' a type he describes passingly well in another story, "Chagrin D'Amour." The poor writer is inspired by a dream, but cannot satisfactorily write it out as he thinks a 'true poet' would. Instead he resolves "that he must content himself with being a true poet, a dreamer, a seer, only in his soul, and that his handiwork must retain that of a simple man of letters." The quotation is revealing, especially given the strongly autobiographical nature of Hesse's later stories. Whether Hesse recognized that he was no 'true poet...
...drug's effects on the body can, in fact, be deadly. Most doctors prescribe methaqualone in capsules of 150 mg. to 300 mg., one of which should be enough to put the average adult to sleep. But drug abusers are not content with such tame dosages. Their usual pattern is to take two or more, and then wash them down with a few pints of beer...
...newspapers in order to engage in criminal activity and to therefore be insulated from grand jury inquiry, regardless of Fifth Amendment grants of immunity [from prosecution]. It might appear that such "sham" newspapers would be easily distinguishable, yet the First Amendment ordinarily prohibits courts from inquiring into the content of expression, except in cases of obscenity or libel, and protects speech and publication regardless of their motivation, orthodoxy, truthfulness, timeliness, or taste.... By affording a privilege to some organs of communication but not to others, courts would inevitably be discriminating on the basis of content...
...privilege based on a discriminatory definition of journalist and an elitist notion of the professional reporter's role. White's arguments should be taken seriously, but to date they have been passed off in the press as just more reactionary claptrap from the Nixon Court. Newspapers have been content to avoid the issue of elitism, preferring to print long and sincere articles pleading "Save the First Amendment" and mobilizing their libbies in the legislatures behind the passage of "shield" laws...
Graduate students have since retreated from this stance, and are now seemingly content to look after nothing more than their own financial interests. As members of the now largely inactive Union ponder why undergraduates have lost interest in their cause, they would do well to trace the disillusionment to the changed position in their policy...