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...where a person could toss aside a wife or husband because serious illness may come their way. Such a philosophy would be contrary to the teachings of all our great religions and a contradiction of the ethics of Western society. If a person should be so callous as to disregard such normal and humane considerations, the state should not lend encouragement to such callousness by allowing a divorce...
Gathering some of his closest associates around him, Perón consolidated his gains in a radio speech. It was sweetly reasonable in tone, but both his words and his voice were strong and confident. He bore down hard on an effective point: the rebels' disregard for the lives of bystanders in their attempt at assassination by aerial bombing. (Agreed a chauffeur: "If they'd had one man with guts, they'd have assassinated Perón openly.") "In the face of such infamy, disloyalty and treason," Perón said sadly...
...wake of criticism over the high (27%) rate of failures locally on the state regents history exam-one of the tests that usually determine whether a high-school senior will get an academic diploma -some New York City school officials were reportedly considering a move to disregard the traditional exam entirely, apparently on the theory that what Johnny doesn't know shouldn't hurt him. Among the questions regarded as too tough: "The Maximilian affair caused the United States to protest to the government of 1) France, 2) Great Britain, 3) Russia, 4) Spain"; "Which of these...
...second category. The Association of American Universities, in a 1949 statement signed by Harvard, concluded that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers." Resulting policy, at least in the minds of educational administrators, extends the traditional principle that academic freedom does not entitle a scholar to disregard the law of the state from its usual application to specific acts--such as murder or theft--to embrace a system of ideas, in so far as communism is such a system, and in so far as it advocates overthrow of the American government. While the moral issue does not disappear...
...many others--who in their attempt to think "freely" are in reality conforming to a dogma--who in their attempt to be different, look strangely and disgustingly alike. The basic inconsistency of which I speak is the Liberals insistence of fair play when he is at bat, and the disregard of this ethic when an opponent like Mr. Buckley takes his turn at the plate. One example--and there are many others--of the former characteristic is the Liberal hue and cry, usually pursued to a sickening degree, whenever Joe McCarthy was alleged to have stepped on a pink...