Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play of emotion and impulse. Yet not only the claims of civility but also the realities of individual development call for some measure of selfdiscipline. We have explored about as fully as a civilization can the joys of impulse, of a world without forms, order or limits. A balance must be struck...
...responsible critic comes to understand the complex machinery by which change must be accomplished, finds the key points of leverage, identifies feasible alternatives, and measures his work by real results. The irresponsible critic never exposes himself to the tough tests of reality. He doesn't subject his view of the world to the cleansing discipline of historical perspective or contemporary relevance. He defines the problem to suit himself. He can spin fantasies of what might be, without the heartbreaking, backbreaking work of building social change into resistant human institutions. Out of such self-indulgent and feckless radicalism come...
...made of Silastic (a silicone plastic), with Dacron cuffs for attachment to the "distributor cap," or blood-vessel connections, in the remnant of Karp's own heart. It is self-contained except for one essential ingredient: a power system to deliver a steady, pumping beat. This must come from an external console as big as a refrigerator standing at the bedside, to which the artificial heart is attached by two thin air hoses...
...reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." Virtually all draft boards have interpreted those words to mean that 1) a draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...made a point of adding that the right is not absolute. "The most sincere religious believer may be validly punished even if in strict pursuance of his creed or principles, he fanatically assassinates an opponent or practices polygamy." In other words, an individual's religious freedom must be balanced against the competing interest of the state. In the Sisson case, the judge found the balance tipped by "the magnitude of Sisson's interest in not killing in the Viet Nam conflict as against the want of magnitude in the country's present need...