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Berrigan: I am arguing that we are particularly dangerous as a nation-because of the nuclear resources and armaments we possess, and also because of the ideological frenzy induced in us by 20 years of a "cold war." I would never deny that other nations are also dangerous ... I never expect decent activity from great power, whether it be church power or state power...
...remarkable decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just found for the Philadelphia judges. Because the three branches of state government are coequal, said the court, "the independent judiciary must possess rights and powers coequal with its functions and duties, including the right and power to protect itself against any impairment thereof." To the city's plea of poverty, the court said: "The deplorable financial conditions in Philadelphia must yield to the constitutional mandate that the judiciary shall be free and independent and able to provide an efficient and effective system of justice. The court does not have unlimited power...
...successful, a policy based on tenacity depends on two things. One is sufficient Israeli military strength to forestall any large-scale resumption of shooting by the Arabs. Israel's military leaders believe that they possess such strength. They are convinced that Egypt's army and air force are not noticeably better than in '67, when they were decisively defeated. The Israelis also believe that the broad band of approximately 3,000 Soviet-built (and in many cases Soviet-manned) SA-2 and SA3 missiles on Egypt's side of the Suez Canal can be neutralized-though...
...individual woman and for the children. The nuclear family seems to be the worst possible way of bringing up children-the child's whole early experience of life is dependence on one woman-if the child is a boy, his goal in later life will be to possess such a woman, and if the child is a girl, to identify with such a woman. And that woman's sole function is to love and to feed and to give. It seems that a much healthier way of bringing up children would be to share that responsibility with both...
...theater, the luck of the English has been the Irish. From Sheridan and Farquhar through Synge, Shaw and O'Casey, Irish-born dramatists have adorned English speech with tears, wit and poetic music. All the great Irish writers possess the gift for lightening or deepening the color of language. They bring to it both a larky playfulness and a brooding melancholy. They are the unofficial patron saints of English, and it is these saints of the word whom the distinguished Irish actress Siobhan McKenna is honoring in a superior one-woman show called Here Are Ladies. Selections...