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Perhaps Robinson's Quaker teammates should have taken a cue from their top player and tried to stop the show from going on at Palmer Dixon yesterday afternoon. For once the balls were out of the can, the match result was never in doubt as the Crimson easily served, volleyed and thundered their way past Penn with a 7-2 match...
...from a Victorian boarding school is often hilariously overdone, but the subject is eerie and the idea has potential. Weir is a wild Romantic, he gives every shot of nature stark religious overtones piled on to the point of silliness. The beginning is obvious but fun. There is no doubt as to what happens to the girls, but there follows more than an hour of ponderous, redundant "evidence," the result of an Agatha Christie-type structure which, Weir irritatingly enough, never fulfills. Weir may be an artist--he certainly makes films that proclaim their profundity--but he seems grounded...
Were Orientalists at last beginning to wonder about their "Islam," which they said had taught the faithful never to resist unlawful tyranny, never to prize any values over sex and money, never to disturb fate? Did anyone stop to doubt that F-15 planes were the answer to all our worries about "Islam"? Was Islamic punishment, which tantalized the press, more irreducibly vicious than, say, napalming Asian peasants...
Whatever the legal merits of the L.D.F.'s stand, there is no doubt that most people in the U.S. want capital punishment. It was not always so: in 1966 a Gallup poll showed more people against the death penalty than for it. But high crime has helped change many minds. By September 1978 a Gallup poll estimated that 62% favored the death penalty, only 27% opposed it. No one has been able to prove conclusively that the death penalty deters murders, but the feeling persists that some crimes are so awful that the criminal deserves to be executed. Whether...
Otherwise, the ARCO connection may well cast doubt on the Forum's integrity. The Forum may lose potential speakers who object to the political implications of the platform's name. Jackson doesn't believe this has happened and has no reason to think it will, but he conceded it is "conceivable." It is true that some liberals and labor leaders have spoken at the Forum already; perhaps it is too early to judge this possibility. In any event, guests of the School should not be put in the positions of having to speak under a name that may be anathema...