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...lawyers were sure that peppery Lee Loevinger, chief of Justice's Antitrust Division, had initiated the new action in reprisal for G.E.'s refusal to sign a consent decree under which the company would bind itself not to charge "unreasonably low" prices that might tend to harm competitors. Another theory was that Loevinger was worried by the vagueness of the proposed consent decree, which might make it legally untenable...
...therefore not helping the U.S. by printing such one-sided material. On the contrary, you are doing definite harm...
...cautionary example. Venice, the most beautiful city in the world, is a crude sand castle, and the dolphin, the most beautiful of marine animals, is a mudfish. The people who conspire in this sort of thing are doubtless dutifully-minded toward the young, and can claim that no great harm is done-the child will not remember such books. But why protect the young from the beauty of Canaletto on Venice or Pliny on dolphins...
...child is sitting down or lying down, or is upside down or under the bed covers while he is doing this reading. I am not advocating that he read in the dark-it is obviously more comfortable and perhaps easier to read in adequate light-but it does no harm to the eyes to read in the dark. I would much prefer that your child read upside down in the dark than not read...
...movies at one o'clock on Saturday and come out at six, having sat in the front row the whole time, that's fine. He may have a splitting headache and be sick from a lot of popcorn, but he has caused no harm to his eyes. He has benefited from using them. Eyes, like fingers, hands, arms, feet, legs, brains and lungs are to be used, and lack of use may do much greater harm than use. People who tell me they are 'saving' their eyes by not using them are doing their eyes...