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THEREIN LAY THE CRUX of the problem. "I don't want to send this letter," Offutt told the council. "We ought not endorse this type of political activity...
...Responsibilities makes explicit those essential principles underlying our community. The incidents of last spring at 17 Quincy Street and Lowell House raise, for the first time in many years, questions of application: what specific kinds of behavior fall within and without the bounds enshrined in the Resolution. The crux of the matter, of course, is that different rights and different responsibilities sometimes come into conflict. Such conflict is inevitable in any setting in which discourse involving differing opinions on issues of great importance is a significant part of ongoing activity. It is expecially so in a university community, for here...
...might just as well be." Weinberger endorsed Perle's view that the number of Soviet officials in the U.S. should be no greater than the number of Americans in the U.S.S.R. (Right now the Soviets have nearly four times as many, 980 to 260.) Weinberger also defended the crux of his initial statement on the East German incident and repeated his opposition to any U.S. concessions in arms- control negotiations. In giving Nicholson a posthumous promotion, Weinberger said the Soviets' "ruthlessness" should be a warning for anyone "willing to give (them) the benefit of the doubt...
This, surely, is the crux of the matter. The hearing brought scores of pundits opining that the "censoring" of the sculpture would be the moral equivalent of Hitler's book burning, that it would start an iconoclastic stampede against all public sculpture in America and so forth. But the central point is that Tilted Arc was, according to Serra, conceived and contracted between him and the GSA as a permanent installation in Federal Plaza, and that the GSA should not convene a hearing to change the rules four years after the closing whistle. If it wants to avoid such imbroglios...
...Jewish day school. There is a sort of spiritual determinism at work here: despite her mother's adamant atheism, despite her father's Protestant background Ilana has a Jewish soul in need of uncovering. This represents a twist of the theme of generational conflict that is at the crux of much of Potok's work. In both The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lee youngsters from religious backgrounds partially break away from their families and communities in pursuit of secular goals. In Davita Harp however, the pattern reversed here religion is the forbidden trust...