Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the national attention focused on the elections explains student indifference to local issues. Still, the Graduate Student Union, which came very close to striking over teaching fellows' salaries last Spring, has dwindled in number and strength. Sam Popkin went to jail over disclosure of sources in the Pentagon Papers case this Fall, and the news was received with distressed yawns. The CRR is old hat, and boring. More recently, the New American Movement has been pushing leaflets about "political" hirings and firings in three Harvard Departments; most leaflets have found their way unread to the trash basket...
...Nixonian ill-regard for the First Amendment grows out of an endemic responsibility to safeguard the public. Self-righteous as it sometimes appears, this feeling is deep-seated throughout the print and broadcast industry. Examples have been abundant of late. Half a dozen newsmen have chosen to go to jail rather than violate confidential relationships with sources; commentators and columnists of all political persuasions have lambasted grand jury pressure to force reporters to divulge sources. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press already has listed 19 cases it considers unlawful attempts by courts to force disclosure of sources...
...witnesses at the hearing--mostly legislators and representatives of legal and press organizations--continually stated that the Caldwell decision has resulted in the drying up of news sources. The latter are unwilling to rely on a newsman's promise that he will go to jail before disclosing his confidential source. As a result, investigative reporters will be severely hampered. The witnesses did not emphasize the need to protect reporters but rather the need to protect the people's right to know...
Kelman has since continued to promulgate his peculiar brand of conservative socialism. His second book, Behind the Berlin Wall, is an account of a two-month stay during 1971 in East Germany. Constant fear haunts our intrepid hero as he risks millenial jail terms to uncover the truth about Communism. He cleverly outwits a couple of commissars who accompany him, and returns to report that things are not good in East Germany: everything breaks all the time, there are not enough refrigerators, telephones or good razor blades--and besides, the people are not free...
According to the poet, then, we are all behind bars -locked inside the jail of mortality. No matter how bitter his past, the prisoner must find a way to leave the personal desert for the world of common humanity. But how can one enter that world when there are no doors? How can one "praise" what one cannot understand...