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...them spent in the campus infirmary, before deciding to quit. "The past 2-1/2 years came crashing down on me in an instant," she said in a quavering voice when announcing her decision. In a final sign of how anxious some people at the school were to be rid of her, when she returned to her barracks to gather her belongings, she found they had already been packed...
...night vigils with feverish children, but the ungovernable, romantic kind of love that the songs tell us about, as in "addicted to love" and "I would do anything to hold on to you." Whether Smith intended to kill herself or just wanted to win back her lover by getting rid of the kids, we will never know for sure. Either way, she was an extremist in the cause of love, and her sons, horribly enough, were human sacrifices to it. "Good" women put the children first. They forgo disruptive romantic entanglements; if necessary, they endure loveless marriages until the kids...
...reform, without which the NEA probably won't survive at all. Its critics charge it with spending too much on grants to individual artists, but this is untrue--in fact, such grants account for only 4% of its budget. It's more important for the NEA to get rid of all its bogus democratic criteria, the therapeutic fustian of "self-esteem" and "empowerment" through art for this locality or that minority. Leave that to state arts councils (if they still want it, which they shouldn't either); in art there should be no such entitlements. The NEA should be more...
...COURSE THE INTERNET SHOULD BE rid of all its disgusting cyberporn, and those purveyors--and collectors--punished to the full extent of laws (to be quickly written). It is, after all, horrible for innocent children to see unnatural images of naked human bodies. How better for them to watch tens of thousands of natural images of murder and mayhem on television and in the movies. RANDY WILSON Santa Monica, California Via America Online
...criticized his nonviolent demonstrations as "unwise and untimely" acts of outside agitation. Wrote King: "In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churches stand on the sidelines and merely mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard so many ministers say, 'These are social issues with which the Gospel has no real concern.'" But for the most part, King's powerful appeal to his fellow pastors to act like Christians fell on deaf ears. Even today, there...