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Dialogue between serious men about serious things was for Father Murray the sine qua non of civilized society. The end in view was not agreement but the kind of understanding that honest disagreement presupposes. "Disagreement," he would often say, "is not an easy thing to reach." This, he felt, was society's protection against the confusion spread by the barbarian perpetually at the gates...
...Sine Qua N/on. The case under review was that of Albert Alfred Fontana, a former state trapshooting champion, who had shot and killed his estranged wife after she refused a reconciliation. Found incapable of standing trial because of insanity, he was placed in a state mental hospital where, after a few months under the care primarily of Dr. Carl Schwartz, he recovered enough to face a court. He pleaded not guilty by virtue of insanity, and the prosecution called Dr. Schwartz, who, over defense objections, stated that "Mr. Fontana was aware that he was doing something wrong...
...inspire confidence in patients to make full disclosure of symptoms and conditions to physicians. Such confidence is deemed necessary to the efficacy of treatment. This is especially so in the case of state hospitals for the mentally ill, where complete confidence in the attending physicians is a sine qua non to the cure...
...awareness and the superimposed discipline of grammatical rules. The linguists and the structural anthropologists are united in the suspicion that the origin of human speech and of human society may have been equivalent events. Lévi-Strauss's books reflect his conviction that communication is the sine qua non of society, and that speech is only one of many ways by which society explicates itself. Music, art, ritual, myth, religion, literature, cooking, tattooing, the kinship systems founded on intermarriage, the barter of goods and services-all these, and others, can be considered languages by which society is elaborated...
...Press seems to be the least integral of Harvard's many organs. Yet the Press's policy, according to Thomas J. Wilson, its director for 20 years, is "to publish as many good scholarly books as possible short of bankruptcy." That is its justification, for accessible scholarship is the sine qua non of a university...