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...particular injustices of McCarthy are alarming (though America is pretty used to such), but far less so than his general method of politics that abolishes all distinction between private and public life and responsibility--a method that the author of your article appears to share with him sincerely. Bernard Crick, Teaching Fellow in Government...
...Crick is correct when he says that the right of privacy is an essential part of freedom. I cherish this freedom as greatly as he and would defend as staunchly as he the right of privacy for a private individual. But the only thing private about G. David Schine is his rank in the Army. It was not I who chose to make Mr. Schine a public figure; I would have much preferred to have seen him remain in private life as the president of a hotel chain. But he is now much more, and it was Schine himself...
...purpose in writing this article was not, as Mr. Crick suggests, to "muckrake." It was to place in some perspective Mr. Schine's role in the present squabble in Washington. I tried to show that his life at Harvard foreshadowed the present controversy because it is very much part of his personality, as displayed here, to feel that special privileges are due him. I do not consider this "irrelevant...
Lastly, I would dispute Mr. Crick's apparent assumption that the college career of a Harvard alumnus should not be painted unfavorably in the CRIMSON. This he seems to suggest is some sort of disloyalty to Harvard. Here he displays a misunderstanding of the freedom and diversity which underlie this university. Harvard takes no responsibility either for what its students do with themselves here or what they become later. It is therefore no less befitting for the university paper to run an article on Mr. Schine's life here than it was for it to publish...
When the ceiling, often considered man's supreme achievement with the brush, was done, Michelangelo had a permanent crick in his neck and small thanks (3,000 ducats) from his grumpy boss...