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...separate concurring opinions, the court's only Roman Catholic and its only Jew strove to reinforce the point that the decision bans prescribed religious observances in public schools-and nothing more. Wrote Justice William J. Brennan Jr.: "I venture to suggest that religious exercises in the public schools present a unique problem. For not every involvement of religion in public life violates the establishment clause." He went on to argue that the decision did not apply to chaplains in the armed services, prayers in legislative bodies, tax exemptions for religious institutions, religious mottoes on currency or the "under...
Talking with Guns. Along Israel's 600 miles of frontier with its hostile neighbors of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, there are still great stretches of no man's land. From foxholes and trenches now well ensconced in olive groves, Jew and Arab stare bitterly at one another, firing on anything that moves. Would-be infiltrators cause few diplomatic headaches, a U.N. media tor wryly explains, because "we simply repatriate the corpses." Bisecting the city of Jerusalem is a grim buffer zone of tangled barbed wire and antitank dragon's feet, flanked by concrete pill boxes...
...sitting behind the austere desks of Widener Library, studying. The silence is stunning. What if someone grew excited about his work, and spoke out loudly? But we are here to read, to transfer the contents of various books to our various minds: an African studies Shakespeare, a Jew is learning Greek, a bearded old man scans John Updike's latest novel; I, whose ancestors migrated to Indiana during the Civil War, am reading American Colonial history...
...relayed to New York, where a family whose son had graduated splendidly from Harvard College wept for days and then was persuaded to do something to commemorate his brief passage. "On Widener Library you shall maintain your University." The silence there is stunning. The African studies his Shakespeare. The Jew goes on with his Greek. Shall we ever learn what we need to know...
Plots Against Hitler. Dr. Arendt, a Jew who herself fled Germany in 1933 and now lives and teaches in the U.S., takes Eichmann at his word that he did not really hate Jews. Not only did he have some Jewish friends; he even had a Jewish mistress. Eichmann's trouble, argues Arendt, was his overdeveloped sense of duty. He blindly obeyed orders -any orders...