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...hectic life of a much-sought-after bachelor-he is separated, at least geographically, from his wife Marian, who still lives in Washington. His jaunty bow tie has been seen at Arthur-a discothèque that might well have been named for him -and his every date and dictum seem to end up in the gossip columns...
Miller's lawyers tried to dig deeper: they argued that the First Amendment protects card burning as "symbolic speech," and they urged the court to apply Justice Holmes's famous dictum that mere words cannot be punished unless they create "a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." Miller & Co. insisted that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. The information on the card is already on file; moreover, another law makes it a crime to be in "willful nonpossession" of a draft...
...laughs. Beclch clouts a small boy to death in the anguished presence of the child's mother. She decapitates a young goat, and gnaws on the animal's entrails with her lips dripping blood. All this is meant to confound, amaze, and dismay, to dramatize the central dictum of Antonin Artaud, the French pioneer of this type of theater who said: "Everything that acts is a cruelty...
...Post's dictum is: "Be useful, be generous, keep busy." What have been the most memorable days of her life? Says she with a smile: "There have been too many of them to single out only...
...demoralization is morally indefensible, all theologians and moral philosophers agree, violating the just-war principle of discrimination. The conditions of warfare in which a factory can be as much of a military installation as an airfield has created inevitable new hazards for noncombatants. And Mao Tse-tung's dictum, "There is no profound difference between the farmer and the soldier," underlies the special problems created by guerrilla warfare. The U.S. is not deliberately trying to destroy and demoralize civilians; it is guerrilla tactics and terror that attempt this. Writes Dr. Paul Ramsey, professor of Christian ethics at Princeton...