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...strive to keep their schools nonpolitical. Despite their diverse resources, Kozol says that many of them offer children only "unimportant options," such as a choice between working with "bright and whimsical gadgets" like a packaged science game, or doing "their own thing" at the weaver's loom and potter's kiln. To Kozol, these choices are not really free, at least not in any way that genuinely matters. Instead of confronting their students with moral dilemmas and social problems, these schools offer only "the pretense of free choice within a carefully constructed framework of contrived and managed possibilities...
...Supreme Court has traditionally taken the position that it does not want to become the arbiter of the nation's morals. Justice Potter Stewart said that he could not define hard-core pornography, "but I know it when I see it." This makes good sense but not necessarily good law. If the Supreme Court does not act, lesser bodies will. One debatable notion is to let local communities cope with the problem, and proponents of local option argue that this might actually be a more liberal solution than trying to devise a single national standard that might have...
...beach-front condominium in Delaware for two weeks early this summer. Then he found himself spending most of his time driving to and fro between the seashore and Washington, D.C. "Out of the two weeks," he says, "I think I got to spend five days at the beach." Justice Potter Stewart escaped to a fishing lodge in New Hampshire, but he has to telephone his office every day-and keep reading. "We'll get about 800 cert petitions* through the summer," he says...
Several Justices feel that they must stay in or near Washington during most of the recess. And any Justice who departs maintains regular contact. Potter Stewart drives daily to the post office in Franconia, N.H., where at first "a few of the Yankees looked pretty skeptically" at the franked manila envelopes that poured in. "I think they wanted to know where the stamps were," says Stewart, who puts in three or four hours of court work seven days a week...
Trained at Jamaica's United Theological College and London University, Potter was pastor of a Methodist church in Haiti until 1954, when he joined the W.C.C.'s youth department. Haiti helped to mold his view that the word of God must be accompanied by social action. "How dare I go well fed to talk to hungry, unlearned people about the fact that they must be saved," he asks, "and not roll up my sleeves?" During the 1960s, he served a seven-year stint as field secretary for Africa and the West Indies for the British Methodist Missionary Society...