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Slave Trade in the World Today is an Italian-made documentary that pursues its righteous ends with unseemly gusto. It begins in almost Biblical solemnity, citing the U.N. declaration that "slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." Next, Novelist Robin Maugham, nephew of Somerset, reports that he himself bought a slave in the Sahara for $105 and set him free. And who is to blame for the traffic in human beings in Africa and the Middle East? Who else but the U.S., which, Maugham says, cares only for her "vast oil interests. Britain does nothing...
...rigid, righteous Christians of Elburg were concerned, justice had been done, and the case was closed. "Ministers are sinners, like you and me," said one elderly fisherman, contentedly. "We are all sinners, day and night." Another Elburger, who last week heard Van der Wiel deliver his first post-confession sermon, commented: "It was wonderful preaching today. I felt fine, as we all did, and we sang with joy." But Van der Wiel was emotionally shattered by his ordeal. The provincial synod, when it heard about the pastor's punishment, was so shocked that it ordered an investigation...
Through Waltzing Dan's room troop: his termagant sister (Pert Kelton), a scold who would rather be righteous than right; a mournful Jewish crony, much dismayed that a recently deceased and cremated friend might be occupying the ashtray at his elbow; a refreshingly downbeat priest to whom God is all Greek and man is vile, and a medical fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing...
...confrontation with the world, Whittaker Chambers both sinned and suffered greatly. But he was a man who took ideas seriously, and was willing to dare greatly for them. No one less daring can be wholly self-righteous about either his sins or his suffering. And sometimes there is a sense that he was resigned to both. In his apologia, he wrote: "There are no more solutions by argument. . . . There are only martyrdoms, which are never solutions but pyres, whose flicker is addressed, not primarily to the present, but to a posterity that has not yet cohered out of chaos...
...think it is time for a liberal to answer the self-righteous charge of political thoughtlessness levelled by David D. Friedman '65 in his column in the Oct. 30 issue of the CRIMSON. If we tend to ridicule Senator Goldwater, it is our best answer to people who listen to no arguments but their own. If this tactic has wronged the mental elasticity of any supporters of Senator Goldwater, if they are in fact open to persuasion, I should like to offer the argument of one liberal against the conscientious conservative...