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Into four days at Mavrino a dozen parallel lives are laid. The characters are borne along on the conveyor belts of terror. They are tormented by problems of conscience, and by the knowledge that if they make the morally right choice?to support a friend, to oppose a foolish order???they will be crushed in the machinery...
...recent pamphlet, Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience, Fortas spoke forcefully of the need for order???and the right of dissent. The law, he believes, must be a living thing, responsive to social reality and human needs...
...certainty and pontification: the nuggets of assertion and advice in his own writings often seem like spiritual rafts bobbing half-hidden in a holy sea of howevers. Nonetheless, the Pauline manner is unmistakable by now. In style, it can be summed up as a search for balance and order???a goal that runs the risk of ambiguity, of settling for surface rather than substance. His program for the church is renewal, to be achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society, by consensus?a goal that can easily thwarted by compromise or by inaction where no reconciliation...
Last week in the Hotel Peabody in Memphis, 500 hardwood lumbermen assembled in a hot session of their Institute to hear not their best customer but the lumbermen themselves attack price-fixing. More notable, the meeting was largely concerned with a single order??? some 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 ft. of hardwood for Fisher bodies...
...debts. His love of fine arts endeared him to a cultured aristocracy. But Ambassadors to the Court of St. James's, in the past, have usually been felicitously articulate, if not downright oratorical. Between them and all Britons is the bond of a mother tongue. Speeches were always in order???the smooth elegancies of a Davis, the high-flown outpourings of a Harvey, the salty blasts of a Dawes. But Ambassador Mellon is no public speaker. His words are bashful, stilted; his delivery, an awkward, almost inaudible mumble. Pilgrim dinners in London will probably not be so brilliant as they...