Word: unsound
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...large private firms are worse; although most of the department stores now employ Negroes in "high visibility" positions (since Negroes make up so much of the buying market, this is not unsound policy), many industries still refuse to budge. Julius Hobson, the President of Washington CORE, explains that "we picket a company and they take their one Negro out of the stockroom and put him on display to show that they're integrated. Then the pickets leave and he goes back into the stockroom...
...Unsound Doctrine. All constitutional authorities agree that some parts of the Bill of Rights do apply to state actions. The constitutional conduit linking the Bill of Rights with the states is the 14th Amendment provision that no state may "deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law." This formula clearly bars a state from, say, passing a law that abridges freedom of speech. But does it also bar "an establishment of religion" by a state? Yes, said the Supreme Court. No, said some of the experts at Chicago -at least not to the broad extent...
That doctrine is "flagrantly unsound," said the University of Chicago's Professor Kenneth Gulp Davis. "The only way a state can violate the establishment clause," he said, "is by depriving a person of 'liberty.' " The University of Pennsylvania's Dean Jefferson B. Fordham was disturbed about the same point. Justice Clark's opinion, he said, failed to explain how religious exercises could be unconstitutional "without any element of compulsion...
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...people will also be shocked by Silent Spring-but for a different reason. They recognize Miss Carson's skill in building her frightening case; but they consider that case unfair, one-sided, and hysterically overemphatic. Many of the scary generalizations-and there are lots of them-are patently unsound. "It is not possible," says Miss Carson, "to add pesticides to water anywhere without threatening the purity of water everywhere." It takes only a moment of reflection to show that this is nonsense. Again she says: "Each insecticide is used for the simple reason that it is a deadly poison...