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...moral arguments against such an affidavit are many, but several are worth repeating. Legally, the disclaimer provides criminal penalties for a false statement on questions of belief or opinion. Far worse, any university which administers this vaguely-worded affidavit becomes an instrument of the government, enforcing an official, safe norm of belief. Although it has been suggested that Harvard accept NDEA money and provide separate scholarship funds for those students who refuse to sign the affidavit, this suggestion begs the moral question. In an NDEA loan, the University would provide one-tenth of the money and would have to administer...
...Roman Church, writes Niebuhr, balances concern for the individual with concern for the health of the community, which is to be achieved by what the encyclical calls "objective justice and its driving force, love." Says he: "To assert that justice is the norm and 'love the driving force' is certainly a theory of the relation of...love to the social order preferable to some Protestant and secular theories...
...response to TIME'S Aug. 18 issue pinning a "newest oddity" or "oddest newity dunce cap on me for my long protest of Oilman Lawrence O'Connor's nomination to the Federal Power Commission and other aberrations from the senatorial norm, two corrections...
...with food and water, Benson has stocked his hideout with beer and a 1925 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A nuclear attack, says he, will set civilization back at least one generation; with the 1925 Britannica to tell him how, he will start life over again at the national norm...
...Crimson's Dave Morse drew a walk to open the inning, stole second, and went to third when captain Al Martin flied out to left. For an as yet unexplained reason, coach Norm Shepard ordered Charlie Ravenel to pull a squeeze bunt. He did, and Morse was called out at the plate in a cloud of dust...