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President Henry has based his stand on commonly accepted standards of morality"; yet these standards are fuzzy, transient, often sick, and by no means commonly accepted. (Burning was, for centuries, a commonly accepted countermeasure for witchcraft.) The conflict of currently accepted standards with reality has led to a pandemic of neurosis and hypocrisy that is destroying our integrity as human beings...
...literature, movies, television? "We can expect a good deal of Catholic pressure along these lines," says Bennett. Organizations such as the Legion of Decency and the National Organization for Decent Literature, writes Schlesinger, "have already meddled outrageously with the freedom of non-Catholics . . ." But he sees them as "transient phenomena...
Focused Beam. Dr. Baronofsky, 42, figured out a way of using irritation, but without the knife. X rays, in properly adjusted doses, cause transient irritation without doing actual damage. Tests with hundreds of dogs showed that survival rates jumped fourfold or better after an artificially simulated heart attack, if the animals were irradiated. Then some were killed, and dissection of their hearts showed that small artery branches had multiplied...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, agreed with Wahl about the transient nature of the insurrection. "Could 2,000 people throwing up barricades in New York overthrow the President?" he asked. DeGaulle has two choices, Hoffmann said. He can either shoot into the rebels or "starve them out." The latter action would create less bad feeling among those colonials not participating in the fighting...
...addressed to "my own, own, own Isabella," a lady named Pigot, who happened to be Widow Fitz-herbert's companion. Where the salutation is hazy, it is impossible to know which woman young George was wooing at the time. But in one letter he cheerfully lyricized to the transient target of his affection: "Hand locked in hand/ they both shall win their way/ To blissful regions/ of eternal...