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...Catholic Church hews to its strict teaching that everything from impure desires to adultery is serious sin, but a modest liberalization is going on at two levels. First, increasing numbers of pastors are softening their application of the traditional morality, often on the grounds that people who engage in illicit sex may be so immature that their guilt is not always a serious matter. Second, some theologians are challenging the "natural law" doctrine that lies behind the church's moral standards. According to natural law, an act is wrong if it is "against nature," but the new moralists...
...adopting this acquisition policy. Harvard has taken the strongest position of any American institution against the looting, illicit commerce and buying of "hot" art treasures. The only other institution to make a formal statement on art collecting policy was the University of Pennsylvania, which in April 1970 demanded that all purchases have a pedigree. Gifts, loan exhibitions as well as purchases, are all acquisitions under the jurisdiction of Harvard's new policy...
...devil himself, or at least in league with him. He looked like Ichabod Crane done up as Mephistopheles, allegedly spent more time in illicit beds than in his own, was a fabulous showman and died, denying nothing, at 57. Not even Don Juan had such high-powered publicity-but then Don Juan couldn't play the fiddle...
...effect on those less committed to the conduct which has made them surveillance objects--e.g., a young man or woman simply toying with the idea of entering a political group which the Bureau does not sanction--is much more severe. Government investigation of an activity marks it as illicit and dangerous. Its objects might reasonably fear that they will have difficulty getting jobs and will be shunned by suspicious neighbors. A widespread surveillance mentality could deaden our political life and make movements for change nearly impossible...
...from the force last year for taking a $100 bribe from a narcotics dealer. Wishing to get back on the force, he offered to get narcotics informants to cooperate with the commission. Two of his informants were wired with tape recorders and transmitters. These were used to monitor their illicit dealings with policemen. Meetings took place on street corners, in automobiles and, in one instance, just two doorways from a precinct house...