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...make Navajos conform to "mass society," the court added that peyote is harmless, is permitted in other states and is religiously more crucial than polygamy, without which modern Mormons are thriving. Since Peyotism "presents only slight danger to the state," the court voided the Navajos' convictions. Balancing its dictum, the court simultaneously rejected the appeal of a white, "selfstyled 'peyote preacher'" who made the same claim as the Indians. He must stand trial again, ordered the court, because he "has not proved that his asserted belief was an honest and bona fide one." How far a court...
...hard to sustain the argument that an investigation once begun must be finished. Few Faculty members live by this dictum themselves. Quite often research indicates that an hypothesis is not worth pursuing further or that it requires considerably more work than originally anticipated. As a good thesis is obviously more than a simple research paper it runs the risk of unexpected--and perhaps insurmountable--difficulties...
Young Vladimir was deeply influenced by the Russian revolutionary tradition stemming from the anarchists, by the peasant-dreamer Tkachev, and by the demonic intriguer Nechaev. Vladimir accepted without qualification Nechaev's famous dictum: "Everything that promotes the success of the revolution is moral; everything that hinders it is immoral...
...Pointed Dictum. The argument then entered virgin territory: the constitutional guarantee of jury trial has long been construed to exclude "petty offenses"-meaning those carrying top penalties of six months in jail and a $500 fine. Criminal contempt is no petty offense. Until recently, however, it was almost never punished by more than petty-level penalties. Now the penalties have grown ever stiffer. For example, the Supreme Court in 1958 upheld three-year sentences for Communists Gilbert Green and Harry Winston, who had jumped bail. In the light of such penalties, has criminal contempt now become triable by jury...
...church."). Ere long, thanks to "God's most potent chemistry," he meets and marries a spirited co-ed named Ruth (Diana Hyland). He is then summoned to Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, where he wins a huge following and prepares his first book, inspired by the simple dictum that "together, you and God can do anything." In the controversy arising from Positive Thinking, Peale begins to doubt, but dramatically resolves his doubts when he is called to the bedside of another stricken child...