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...month: "I am not sure whether I was or not. I may very well have been." Other witnesses felt that truth was illusory; facts could only be construed "in their context." The quibbling over nuances would do credit to Henry James-as when Ehrlichman vainly tried to distinguish between "literal" and "actual...
...Some tolerance of pornography is necessary, for if we distinguish it by its lack of "literary, artistic or scientific value," we put censors in the position of deciding what constitutes art, literature and science. Their previous record is lamentable...
...wooded hills of eastern Tennessee, Baker is known to friends and kinfolk as Howard Henry, to distinguish him from his father, who was simply called Howard. The elder Baker served 13 years in Congress until his death in 1964. Since the early 1820s there have been Bakers in that part of Appalachia, where coal mining, lumbering, dairy farming - and poverty - are a way of life Young Baker was strongly influenced by his maternal grandmother, known as Mother Ladd, who succeeded her late husband in 1927 as sheriff of Roane County. She gained notoriety for cap turing two armed bootleggers singlehanded...
Burger brushed aside dissenting attempts to "sound the alarm of repression." Actually, he said, "to equate the free and robust exchange of ideas and political debate with commercial exploitation of obscene material demeans . . . the First Amendment and its high purposes in the historic struggle for freedom." Courts can distinguish between ideas and exploitation. "One can concede that the 'sexual revolution' of recent years may have had useful byproducts in striking layers of prudery from a subject long irrationally kept from needed ventilation." But that should not prevent "regulation of patently offensive 'hardcore' materials...
...Hobbes. Strauss's work has encouraged the reconsideration of the prevailing positivist philosophy which locates the noetic center of gravity in the natural sciences and mathematics and which is therefore "value free," independent of ethics. Such a political science, says Strauss, by refusing to make value judgments and distinguish between "great statesmen, mediocrities, and insane impostors" may be good bibliography; it can say nothing relevant about politics. Starting with the principles of the Greek political classics, Plato, Aristotle, and Xenophon, and harkening back to the intuitive "common sense" of pre-scientific knowledge, Strauss, who is now in his seventies...