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...Ignazio Silone is one of the world's few gainfully employed freelance socialists. He adopted this rubric 40 years ago, after a series of political and moral crises persuaded him that Russian-dominated Communism was a perversion of Marxist and humanitarian ideals. He had been a founder of the Italian Communist Party, a shadow person in the anti-Fascist underground, a delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story...
...first, initiated in 1961, involved "comprehensive planning" in an undeveloped region in Venezuela. The second -- the Metropolitan Boston Studies program, started in 1965--is the rubric under which technical assistance has been given to various Boston agencies which request it. The most frequently cited (and apparently only significant) study produced has been a study of redistricting to alleviate racial imbalance in Boston schools, done for the Massachusetts Department of Education. On less urgent matters, staff members have consulted with other agencies -- the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and BRA, among others...
Infant baptism is under fire. The most recent attack on this traditional Christian practice comes from West Germany, where 350 Evangelical (Lutheran) churchmen have petitioned the Rhineland synod to abandon the rubric requiring infant baptism and let parents decide when their children should undergo the ceremony. To give the demand more weight, 50 pastors in Germany have publicly indicated that they will not baptize their own children...
...specifically Communist crime is "hooliganism," a rubric that covers everything from horsing around in public to beating up policemen. Hooliganism is intimately associated with alcohol-fully 80% of arrested hooligans prove to be stoned on vodka or Georgian wine. Most of them regard the customary 15-day jail rap as a holiday from work. From now on, the fact that a man is drunk when he commits a crime is to be considered an aggravating rather than an extenuating circumstance...
Judge Irving R. Kaufman traced the euphemism to the Public Health Service, which devised it as an admittedly "vague and indefinite" rubric covering Congress' intent to bar "homosexuals and other sex perverts." However medically imprecise, said Kaufman, the phrase became "a legal term of art" that clearly barred Boutilier as "a homosexual long before leaving Canada," and authorized his deportation even if he had lived "a life of impeccable morality" in the U.S. Ruled Kaufman: "It is not our function to sit in judgment on Congress' wisdom in enacting the law." In dissent, Judge Leonard P. Moore called...