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Finally, Fletcher said, "I see nothing wrong with abortion." Out loud, practically nobody favors abortion to prevent life, he said, "but a lot of this is hypocrisy: look what happens when Mr. and Mrs. Pious Stuffed-Shirt discover that their own daughter is in trouble...
...obvious pious wish to make now is that the science student develop the channels of communication with humanists of the system of education. But the fact is, that without the co-operation of humanities students he cannot develop such channels; for to establish a sophisticated language shared by scientists and humanists is to educate both. Besides, it remains to be shown that our pious wish is desirable in whatever value system the scientist accepts. To implement that wish requires effort, at least, and more likely, something close to divine inspiration. The will to try, and divine inspiration, like the operational...
...stormiest sessions that Commons had seen in years, the Prime Minister returned to the attack by suggesting that the press and Opposition leaders had tried to "destroy private reputations from motives either of spite or gain." He concluded with a pious warning against "the spirit of Titus Oates* and Senator McCarthy...
...carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3½ centuries (1518 to 1865) during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World. This savage traffic began, ironically, as the result of one man's compassion. In 1517 a pious priest from Haiti interceded with the Spanish King to protest the treatment of the island's gentle Indians, whom the colonists were slaughtering in droves in a futile effort to make the rest work. Moved less by mercy than the practical need for cheap labor to work Haiti...
Headed for Hell. For 184 years, strong rulers have built Andover. The pious John Adams (a relative of both Presidents) forbade dancing as well as Shakespeare, and regularly climbed a ladder to wind the clock in Bulfinch Hall, discoursing on its motto, "Youth is the seedtime of life," as the boys vainly awaited his fall. The zealous "Uncle Sam" Taylor (1837-71) was a total believer in "total depravity." "Robinson," he warned one 14-year-old, "you're on the direct road to hell. You're reading too many novels." Still, Taylor's boys, partly inspired...