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THERE CAN be no punishment. The University will conduct its witch hunt in the name and outraged defense of a supposed value neutrality. Yet there will be an implicit value judgment: freedom of speech for Dolph Droge is more important to Harvard University than freedom to live for the Vietnamese. Dolph Droge's daily conduct denies that second freedom, and people came to Sanders Theatre to protest that denial of rights...
...contempt for capitalism is apparent, Saura is unwilling to commit himself to a concrete alternative. He scores point after political point, but he stops his argument short of its finish. The film is a proof without a conclusion. And the problem is not in Saura's treatment but implicit in the subject itself. Capitalism is a system that yet awaits its formal conclusion, and while Saura marks time until the fall, he can only offer a pessimism cloaked in satire. As it is the force of his attacks succeeds but success here brings not a clarifying but a confusing...
...good taste, allowing itself to be carried away with a subjective style of writing. As the article implies, if Cox was unreceptive to the CRIMSON, if he did not willingly volunteer information to a reporter, these facts do not entitle that reporter by virtue of both explicit and implicit derogatory political references and associations to attack the sanctity of a personal relationship between Cox and Miss Nixon...
...reviewer for Ward Just's book Military Men [Feb. 8] ended with the question: "In the complex, chaotic America of today, can a citizen's army really work?" The answer is implicit in Just's book. It is that military men are not citizens of the U.S. They live "on post," a country on the other side of guard gates and cable fences, a land with its own doctrine and traditions, its own norms for dress and grooming, its own schools, its own ideas of the past and future, its own newspapers with their own ideas about...
More than Primitive. Implicit in Lessing's analysis is the belief that man can use increasingly sophisticated science to solve his problems and, at the same time, ensure that science does not turn on its master and destroy him. He suggests that society has little choice other than to press on vigorously in scientific research; he rejects the notion that the only options are to abandon science and become primitive, or continue it and be destroyed. Lessing echoes the warning of Biochemist Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences: "If we forswear more science and technology, there...