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Time after time in the past decade, the Supreme Court has held that discrimination by private individuals is not forbidden by the U.S. Constitution. But how to distinguish between private acts and public responsibility? Last week the court tried again to deal with the question and stirred up almost as much controversy as it settled...
...what we do is as important as our goals." In 1956 the Holy Office condemned situation ethics for Roman Catholics as an illicit brand of subjectivism. Attacking Fletcher's presentation in Commonweal, Dominican Theologian Herbert McCabe argues that the new morality has no criteria to distinguish love from what is really self-interest. "How do you know that what you are doing is loving?" he asks. McCabe also charges that situationism fails to consider that man is always acting within a community that cannot exist without...
...fans across their distant planet. The rotating earth would bring the signal of a Midwest channel 47 into range about two hours later, a California channel 47 about three hours after the East Coast signal. Not that the observers far in space would be able to distinguish the educational, news and entertainment programs that were shown last week; but they would probably be able to detect such man-made patterns as the synchronization signals transmitted by the station...
Nearsighted Satellites. Sagan's assumption is based on a study of photographs transmitted by NASA's weather-watching Nimbus and Tiros satellites. Those pictures were taken from as close as several hundred miles above the Earth and are somewhat clearer than the Mariner shots, which could not distinguish objects smaller than three miles in diameter. Though Sagan examined hundreds of them for signs of life on Earth, he could find none...
...this is where it becomes more difficult to judge experiments to which the ear is not yet accustomed. The less thoughtful critics, commenting on the attention surrounding Coleman a few years ago, exclaimed that "the Emperor has no clothes." But the real task, it seems to me, is to distinguish the serious musicians like Davidson from the charlatans--the guy who's had his saxophone two weeks and becomes "new school" so he won't have to worry about making mistakes--rather than to dismiss all experimentation...