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Neither of these two violations is in itself trivial; taken together, they constitute a serious breach in the few rights I have remaining under the Rogers Committee procedures after they were revised by the GSD Faculty. Let me detail the implications of these violations...
...reasonably hope that the legislators will endorse abolition, exercising leadership for the electorate. Such leadership is, after all, more properly the role of the legislature than of the courts. Shifting perceptions have already made most of the world's past executions, for political, religious or simply trivial offenses, seem barbaric. The mere suspicion of such future condemnations of our own times should make even the most righteous judge hesitate before continuing so fallible, so irreversible, so perilously godlike a practice as the imposition of death by decree...
...undefined defense of "academic freedom" and of the "sanctity of the university"--one single theme, one single idea. The idea is that Someone Knows Something that We Don't. If We sit back and listen, maybe Someday We will be Someone, too. Such absurdity reaches even the trivial level. For example, Buildings and Grounds responded negatively to a student wanting to paint his own suite; "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will decide the colors of the rooms...
...left the meeting. Evers dispatched Cole to get them and proceeded to hear the story of the people still in the hall. Apparently there had been a minor dispute over what night to hold the Democratic Party meeting and what night to hold the NAACP meeting. The argument, while trivial on the surface, illuminated the split in that county between the younger and the older black leaders...
...country to live and work in." In New York, the offerings range from a loan show sampling the past 70 years of his work, shared between the Marlborough and Saidenberg galleries, to a facsimile edition of some Picasso sketchbooks from 1964, containing a few dozen mildly erotic but trivial scribbles, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. at $500 a copy. Across the world, paeans rise to assure everyone that Picasso is younger and more exuberantly creative than ever, that he is still the supreme culture-hero of our century...