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...program for colleges, Chief Justice Burger's opinion reasoned, lies in the court's belief that parochial schoolteachers are less likely than professors at religious colleges to keep religion out of their secular courses. ("Give me a child for the first seven years," says a Jesuit maxim, "and you may do what you like with him afterwards.") Even with the best of intentions, a dedicated layman "teaching in a school affiliated with his or her faith and operated to inculcate its tenets, will inevitably experience great difficulty in remaining religiously neutral." Moreover, Burger argued, schools have fewer built...
...some political circles, it has passed for a maxim that the new 18-year-old vote will make little difference. Last year, for example. Political Analysts Ben Wattenberg and Richard Scammon wrote in The Real Majority that the young, if they bother to vote at all, will probably vote along the same lines as their parents...
...seen through the shit she has been spoon-fed all her life. She has seen through the hatred of men and sex her mother has tried to instill in her since childhood, through the robbery and racism of which her family's wealth is a product, and the maxim that you don't rock the boat, even if the boat is sinking. She has seen through the parents who want to commit her to an asylum for her behavior and her ideas, and has tried desperately to escape. First, a weak attempt at suicide, and then a violently determined...
...Maxim from Kant. Peter represents Mary McCarthy's first attempt to write from a male point of view and there are moments, especially those involving sex, when she is not wholly successful. When she is stuck, she tends to rely on a rationalization. For instance, it is one thing to say that Peter is obsessed with fair play, but is it really likely that he would have given up masturbation after his mother left his stepfather, "because she was not even going to parties...
...Germany in 1933, lived in Denmark and the U.S., then returned to East Germany after the war. For the past 15 years Weigel directed the famed Berliner Ensemble, the repertory company founded by Brecht. "What Brecht prescribed," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan in 1961, "his widow embodies: the maxim that there is no such thing as a character ungoverned by a social context...