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...second alleged inconsistency, referred to ad nauseam by Walter Lippmann, is that Goldwater wants to "restore law and order" while reducing federal power. Lippmann fails to realize that, in Goldwater's opinion, the federal government and liberal ideology are largely responsible for the problem. The idea that "society is responsible" and the downgrading of property rights encourage irresponsibility, while regulations of vast complexity and questionable equity allow people to break the law without feeling guilty...
...Apparently Justice Arthur Goldberg [Feb. 21] wants to effect a quick redistribution of wealth by "Government compensation of victims of crime." What with muggings, hijackings, embezzlements, armed robbery, waterfront pilfering, and so on ad nauseam, this would cost the taxpayers tens of billions a year...
Sadly, it was the Wallace line that was emphasized when the country's newspapers and magazines suddenly discovered Washington this summer. The crime statistics for the District were quoted ad nauseam. The rickety schools and the high dropout rate were cited again and again, and attention was always called to the fact that the schools were 35 per cent Negro in enrollment. No less than six major magazines, plus the New York Times, ran lengthy articles emphasizing crime in the District and the city's racial problems...
When psychiatry became the vogue several years ago, we were told to handle the teenager with kid gloves-"he's a sensitive adolescent"- ad nauseam. It's now grown to a frightening overemphasis via the movies and TV, which cater to the teen-age audience, and too often justify violence and sadism...
...often pompous emotionality, was sympathetically interpreted by the orchestra. Borodin often employs thick brass and woodwind textures in his scores, and the playing of these sections was particularly good. The objectionable thing here is the music itself, specifically the first movement, which is little more than the reiteration, ad nauseam, of a single motive. The rest of the symphony, although often cumbersome and awkward, is better...