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...Henri Perrin, 27 year-old semi-successful rive gauche painter, draws in chalk on the sidewalk of the Boulevard Saint Michel that he will fast until all the killing is stopped...
...gamely liberal management of the Post has to wince. "They're very admirable about it," Von Hoffman says. "They just grit their teeth and look a little doe-eyed when I take on their friends, like John Gardner." Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition and something of a saint to the liberal press, became a Hoffman target after he wrote an article criticizing young demonstrators. Von Hoffman called the Gardner article a "lawnorder pep talk...
...behind every political saint, there must be a treasured legend, and Brady's begins back in the early 60, when he was chairman of the MPA. which was supervising the construction of the public garage underneath Boston Common...
Brady never showed up. He fled to Atlantic City. N.J., and stayed there, or thereabouts for six years, quietly preparing for his career as Boston's second political saint. And on November 13, 1969, it happened...
...against evil is more complex. "Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably," said Milton. The West's philosophic heritage shows that both are components of human existence, intertwined and inseparable. As Luther suggested, man is simul justus ac peccator-saint and sinner at once. To say that evil is part of man is not to condone evil deeds in men. Wrongdoing is not to be shrugged off with easy references to human nature. Yet to ignore the persistent dark element in man can be as misleading, and intolerant...