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Simonson, 52, a plain-spoken jurist with some mod ideas in other areas of law, became the feminist equivalent of Anita Bryant last May. That was when he announced that "whether women like it or not, they are sex objects" as he set free on a probated sentence a 15-year-old youth who had raped a 16-year-old coed in a high school stairwell. Simonson explained the soft sentence as a message to women to "stop teasing." It was time, he added, for "a restoration of modesty in dress and elimination from the community of sexual-gratification businesses...
They are lowly sergeants, the bottom rank for most seniors at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Yet they seemed delighted to be wearing their dull gold sergeants' chevrons on their gray dress uniforms, and to be lining up on the plain overlooking the Hudson River with the rest of the 4,479-member corps of cadets as classes resumed last week. They are 98 cadets who were expelled from the Point a year ago in the biggest cheating scandal in its 175-year history...
Heightened truth, symbolic truth, fictional truth-all these new terms can be pretty upsetting to those who want the plain, unvarnished truth. But truth has its own complexity. Even in the most straight-arrow precincts of journalism-in newspaper city rooms, newsmagazine offices and television newsrooms, where facts are regarded as the inviolable raw material-it is recognized that facts don't speak for themselves. Note how all the professionals refer to their own necessary pattycaking of an event into narrative shape giving it emphasis and a beginning, middle and end, as a story...
...Louisville Times and Courier-Journal, simply blacks out with his felt-tip pen any anatomical displays that trouble him. "They call me the mad brassiere artist," says he. Other papers have for years had policies banning or limiting adult-film advertising, among them the Detroit News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Miami Herald. Wrote Herald Executive Editor John McMullan last June in welcoming the new puritan revival: "A newspaper, after all, is only a guest in your home...
...defense treaty and remove its remaining 1,165 servicemen from the island. But Vance hoped that Peking's new rulers might stand still for U.S. retention of some sort of special role in the future of the island. Hua's statement seemed to make it plain that they would...