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...STORY of David and Goliath teaches that the forces of Evil, no matter how strong, always succumb to the forces of Righteous Good. And even today the small guy does occasionally conquer the bully: while Davids may be in short supply, one Army lieutenant has during the last year continually challenged the Army on its own ground. He has not slain Goliath, nor even wounded him seriously, but his annoying thrusts have damaged the giant's prestige and perhaps paved the way for future challengers...
Albert Jimson's assertions in the letters column of April 1 represent either the worst form of self-righteous ignorance or a humorless April Fool's joke. The argument that abortion is murder has been proven specious many times before, but another refutation seems to be necessary...
...grimly depressing to learn that there persists at that University of articulate students and teachers a band of self-righteous "liberals" who have so little to say and power to say it that they can only cravenly block different views from being heard. I thought that style had gone out with the incident muzzling Secretary McNamara...
...should it not act and act firmly then Harvard shall become a place in which only those can thrive who promote their beliefs with violence and defend their rights with force. The freedom of the University and that of all its members is at stake, for where self-righteous force is the tyrant there is no freedom. And my life, and that of every peaceful citizen is at stake, for where the rights and freedoms which protect and insure life are held in contempt, where they can be trampled upon to establish the moral tyranny of a powerful few, there...
...Devil as little more than devastating evidence of the director's hatred for the work he had been doing and the authorities he had obeyed. Chaplin could glorify his own superiority, Huston could include himself (through Bogart) in ironic rings of betrayal and failure; the result was the same. Righteous indignation was nullified by a confession of impotence...