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...superstates or around the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. Nonetheless, London life is inexpressibly vile-a combination of super-Crippsian austerity and Dachau terrorism. To fall in love is a crime; all passion must be spent on nationalistic fervor and savage hatred of "Emmanuel Goldstein," the Trotzky-like leader of the anti-party underground. All adoration must be devoted to "Big Brother," the Stalinesque dictator whom no one has ever seen, but whose "black-haired, black-mustachio'd" visage, pregnant with "power and mysterious calm," stares from walls in the streets and living rooms...
Influenced by certain demands of one Joseph Goldstein ... I seek the suppression of Alice in Wonderland because it ridicules the plight of the poor Mock Turtle, a practically defenseless minority...
...Joseph Goldstein and others who consider The Merchant of Venice anti-Semitic [TIME, April 4], I would suggest they . . . reread the play with the open-mindedness they ask of others. Viewed from the 20th Century, the Christians make a pretty poor showing, on the whole. It is they who suffer from delusions of grandeur and indulge freely in insults and jibes; it is they who . . . mouth words like mercy and justice, only to evade an honest bargain by means of a cheap legal trick...
...Lawyer Goldstein said that "at least a dozen organizations" were backing him, but he was not ready to name them last week. Apparently he did not speak for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, whose national director, Benjamin R. Epstein, declared: "We believe Mr. Goldstein's threatened resort to litigation . . . is unwise. A decent respect for academic freedom means that the police power of the state is resorted to only in those cases where the material is intended to undermine the democratic fabric and even then, only in extreme cases...
...week's end city educational authorities, with a defiant glint in the eye, dared Goldstein to do his worst. Said Dr. Paul A. Kennedy, assistant superintendent of schools: "I see he's going to pick our books for us! He is not ... We're just going to continue in our regular, slow, somewhat dumb schoolteacher fashion to do the best we can for the children...