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...made illegal a practice that they associated primarily with urban Roman Catholics." It was a way of censuring not only drinking behavior but an "entire lifestyle, including Catholicism." In the same way, Kaplan charges, marijuana bans are vain expressions of opposition to the youth culture, and they do more harm than good...
...trial was the talk of Tel Aviv. As her witnesses gave evidence against Raphael, Sylvie sat demurely hatless in maxiskirts. The trial ended last week when Raphael and Sylvie both agreed to drop their charges, and each signed a statement that neither had meant the other any harm. "Most of my friends," said Sylvie later, "were sorry I did not continue with the case. I wanted to, goodness knows. I still had enough new maxis to wear for weeks to come...
...Nabokovian cartouches, including an appendix containing Henry Bech's "Russian journal" and an introductory letter to Updike from Bech that shrewdly stops short of being a seal of approval: "I don't suppose your publishing this little jeu of a book will do either of us drastic harm...
...over America when he became Richard Nixon's Secretary of Transportation. Instead, Volpe has stopped highway projects that would have thrust through park land and destroyed low-income housing and historic buildings. Says he: "We've got to provide a national transportation system with the least possible harm to the environment...
...first half of this century into an American institution almost as beloved as Thanksgiving. Then it was killed. Not suddenly, but slowly, painfully. Not by any one person but by many. The fact that the killing was not premeditated, that nobody really meant to do the magazine any harm, only made the death more ugly...