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...also much more romantic, much freer in his views than we are in America. But I think a lot of that will change as he begins to work more and more in a completely Western environment. He has everything working in his favor, most of all that he desperately wants to say something and "he is passionate about saying...
...human rights controversy is part of Basket Three, which calls for freer circulation of people and ideas between East and West and more international freedoms. Basket One is devoted to "confidence building" by such means as advance notice of military maneuvers. Basket Two concerns science, technology and trade; the last is of special interest to countries like West Germany that want more commercial and technical exchange between East and West...
...status quo. A few minor changes would render the system perfect, she implies, and none of those changes include disrupting society. That assumption underlies her argument that the Columbia students who took over a building in 1968 were profoundly misguided; the same assumption underlies her argument that freer sexual mores do not provide the emotional support of a good old-fashioned marriage. Each time, her quarrel with "youth"--Trilling is rather free with generalizations--comes down to her fear that it threatens her structure, that its radical demands will destroy the institutions she values so highly...
...Jernstedt insists that the contest involves a treasured principle: "We want to maintain our freedom of choice." Florida State Representative Robert McKnight sums up the issue bluntly: "Stay the hell out of my business." With victory, argues California State Senator William Campbell, "our society will be a little bit freer...
...clever-indeed beguiling-battle cry. It again evokes nostalgic memories of a simpler, more ruggedly individualistic and freer America, where citizens relied less on Government and were in turn less encumbered by it-paying fewer taxes, able to build on their property without restriction, allowed to bear whatever firearms they wished. The crusade also has a basically humanistic ring. For all the progress in the war against cancer, medicine's advances have seemed agonizingly slow to many people, especially to this killer disease's victims and their desperate families. Finally, the Government's fervent opposition to Laetrile...