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...said, their statements that their beliefs are nonreligious are "highly unreliable." According to Black, the law actually exempts "all those whose consciences, spurred by deeply held moral, ethical or religious beliefs, would give them no rest or peace if they allowed themselves to become a part of an instrument...
...sanctification or law is an example. If the worst repression can be called "legal" then it is OK. "Illegality," becomes an aesthetic judgment. McCarthy had to be dealt with, for he too challenged the subtly-honed instrument of the liberal state, dragging it into the mire of recognizable personality. As Pusey says, those were not pleasant times. He finds them analogous to the present because he is once again threatened by voices which claim to speak for the people. Yet it is impossibly ignorant to say that because both right and left threaten the liberal center, they are the same...
...modest hopes for fiction as a shaper of men and history. He saw the creative imagination as a mirror, an instrument of learning and reflection that does not change the march of worldly events. The mirror image will not change, he thought, unless human nature alters. If, against all odds, that happens, he wrote, "it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people -a very few people, but a few novelists are among them-are trying to do this." Forster was one of them...
There were also differences in what they "saw." One blind woman, fingering Gerhard Marcks' Little Fiddler, told a companion: "I can tell he's playing a musical instrument because he's tapping his foot." Her companion had never noticed that detail...
John Gardner, Republican, educator, once Health, Education and Welfare Secretary in a Democratic Administration, now chairman of the National Urban Coalition, had undertaken to speak about urban affairs. His forum: the Illinois Constitutional Convention, which is considering a new instrument of government for the state. But as the speech date approached, he decided instead to deal with the hotter subject of the nation's perils and potentials. When the convention president, Samuel Witwer, got an advance look at Gardner's speech, he invited his guest to substitute the address originally scheduled or cancel the appearance. The remarks Gardner...