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...slipperiest slope is the one that begins, "Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner." To understand everything is to forgive everything. Put Jean Valjean on the moral sliding board. Instead of stealing candlesticks, have him line up seven people in a basement and shoot them in the head. You might have to rewrite Les Miserables a little. A realignment of sympathies will have occurred as to who is the innocent victim in the case...
Medicating dogs or children, in fact anyone (or anything) who cannot, for one reason or another, give informed consent is the slipperiest of ethical slopes. While the benefits of medication are quite substantial to some, and would seem to be quite ethically justifiable, other cases are not nearly so cut and dry. It seems many children are being medicated for convenience sake and not out of a true sense of stewardship of their best interest...
White, though, pulls it off, at least some of the time. Several of his essays here, for instance, tackle that slipperiest of themes, man in the machine age: one, "About Myself," employs a now-aged device ("I am married to U.S. Woman Number 067-01-9807"), but halfway through it, when he talks about his operator's license which will expire in 1943, it is clear he was the first to use this form. Cliche isn't when it's used for the first time, and the reason things become cliches (and then hackneyed cliches) is because they have...
...brace of embarrassing Richard Nixon film clips, put together by Emile de Antonio, the man who did Point of Order, the fine documentary film of the McCarthy hearings. Although the Nixon appearances are amusing and sometimes hilarious, de Antonio fails to find a toehold on the personality of this slipperiest of politicians. The film becomes nothing more than a disconnected sequence of Nixon statements, and some of Antonio's forays -- like cutting from a determined Nixon campaign speech directly to Pat O'Brien's famous "win one for the Gipper" speech in the Notre Dame locker room, simply fall flat...
...brace of embarrassing Richard Nixon film clips, put together by Emile de Antonio, the man who did Point of Order, the fine documentary film of the McCarthy hearings. Although the Nixon appearances are amusing and sometimes hilarious, de Antonio fails to find a toehold on the personality of this slipperiest of politicians. The film becomes nothing more than a disconnected sequence of Nixon statements, and some of Antonio's forays--like cutting from a determined Nixon campaign speech directly to Pat O'Brien's famous "win one for the Gipper" speech in the Notre Dame locker room, simply fall flat...