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...would feel that in a society in which sanity is publicly available I could go on with the kind of work which I have always done throughout my life. I never tried to hurt a person. I tried to do something symbolic with pieces of paper. We tend to overlook the crimes of our political and business leaders. We don't send to jail Presidents and their advisers and certain Congressmen and Senators who talk like bloodthirsty mass murderers. We concentrate obsessively and violently on people who are trying to say things very differently and operate in different ways...
...agree. I see American power as one element in the world, and one dangerous element. But I do not see American power as uniquely dangerous-not when we have before us the spectacle of Soviet power, and rising Chinese power, and falling British power. How can one overlook the murderous greed we have seen the Kremlin display? What is one to make of the outlandish iconography Mao's Peking unashamedly tries to impose on China, and maybe all Asia...
Still, in the epoch of the X-rated film, children's fare is rare indeed. The youthful viewer and his parents should overlook Phantom Tollbooth's flaws and concentrate on the film's underlying moral. Discovery and delight do not come at the end of the trail, but along the way. The going is the goal. · Stefan Kanfer
...excellent article on "The Welfare Maze" [Feb. 8]. However, I would like to reply to some of the critics of President Nixon's Family Assistance Program (FAP) who say it is not enough or is insufficient in its incentives to get people off of wel fare. What they overlook is the principle involved in FAP. For the first time in American history, the Government is preparing to offer a federally guaranteed income. Once this principle is established as law, all Americans will be entitled to an ensured basic income (and security). After passage of FAP, the program...
...wire-tapping has come to be known: the Mitchell Doctrine holds that when the Attorney General decides that tapping someone's phone is vital to national security, he can authorize a wiretap without getting the approval of a court. Quite simply, the doctrine states that the Attorney General can overlook the Fourth Amendment when he judges it necessary...