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...Therein, feels Gibney, lies Poland's immense value to the West; the country is "a pilot-study in Communist decay." As the stone of Red repression was temporarily rolled away and the life underneath suddenly laid bare, it became clearer than ever that the Communist state, even when men try to liberalize it, cannot do without coercion and police power. Author Gibney finds another way of saying this, in the words of a witty Polish intellectual. In a small Jewish congregation, so goes the story, a young Communist was puzzling about one of Stalin's famous slogans...
...called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held Eyman out of line, thought another judge might force a defendant to go to a church other than his own, or even require an atheist to go to church...
Back on May 3, while seated at the kitchen table, having a midnight snack, I took out my wallet, gave my wife her allowance and noted that I had $50 remaining therein. Came the dawn, and on getting dressed, I was missing one wallet. In a cold sweat my wife and I searched the house; for two solid weeks we searched the house, with no luck. I bought a new wallet, went through all the red tape of new operator's licenses, pass cards...
...Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein...
After decrying the apathy of the Harvard student, as if there were something inherently bad about being apathetic, all the contributors to Gadfly offer us is their two-bit philosophy for our thirty-five cents. Therein lies the true tragedy of the magazine, for it is all too apparent that these undergraduates, so eager to say something, really have nothing at all to communicate. The reader has the feeling of having traversed a hog wallow only to be informed that he is dirty...