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...years in this effort; that the energy of the faculty, staff, chair, deans, and officers of the University were wasted; that graduate students were misled in making their plans; that our efforts to protect her reputation were made a mockery; and so on--it is also an explicit violation of promises made, as she herself acknowledged to me," the letter continues...
...thin ice begins to crack underfoot as Koch goes on, without any explicit analysis, to invoke the names of Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Mill. He attempts to paraphrase this assemblage of Moral Reasoning luminaries: "natural law properly authorizes the sovereign to take life in order to vindicate justice." Koch's mistranslation of social contractarian arguments looks more like totalitarianism than democracy...
Instead of acknowledging the fact that the only fully explicit policy recommendation made in the book is for continued research, Koch takes the book as a mandate for "a policy of progressively severe punishment to replace the social experimentation of recent years." The theory as formulated emphasizes the role of constitutional and environmental factors in determining criminality; Koch ignores the environmental aspect, seizes the "genetic" one, and demands that we "don't spare the rod" to those who "rape and break heads...
...structures taken in the 1920s by photographers like Karl Blossfeldt, in which a seedcase can rear up like a Gothic tower, suggesting all manner of analogies to architecture. But Winters' paintings evoke this quintessentially Romantic idea of the very small as metaphor of the very large without being very explicit about it. The paint surface is too rough for that: heavily worked over, it is long on touch but short on info. At the same time, its muddy strength has little of the impetuous fervor of recent neoexpressionist painting. It is crusty and rather stolid. So what is going...
...ranking Roman Catholic prelate of the Philippines. The Cardinal praised the presidential challenger as someone who will "make a good President." He added, "I am tempted to ask, Is this a presidential election, or is this a contest between good and the forces of evil?" Sin's all-but- explicit endorsement carried considerable weight in a country that is nominally 84% Catholic...