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Though the group's active membership never rose above several dozen, the rent-control campaign it initiated collected over 5000 valid signatures of City voters on a petition calling for a vote on rent control in the City. The petition was thrown out in court on the grounds that only the state, not the City, has the right to approve rent control...
...relationship between Birken and Gerald should also prove something of a stumbling block for movie audiences just learning to accept male homosexuality as a valid means of exploring love and sex. Birken's desire to achieve a mystic yet sensual union with another man must be seen in reaction to his fears of Hermione and Ursula. Birken hates women for their sex at the same time as he is drawn to them; he associates the demands of the two women with those of motherhood and death, forces that limit and frustrate his lofty aspirations for freedom. But since the movie...
...Valid Process. In helping to heal Columbia after the 1968 crisis, Severn applied the soothing humor and tough pragmatism that have earned him wide respect as a labor arbitrator and mediator in disputes involving airline pilots, firemen, policemen, teachers and merchant mariners. As chairman of the faculty executive committee, he helped ease Columbia's overly remote president, Grayson Kirk, into retirement. Sovern was also chief salesman for the new University Senate, a student-faculty-alumni-administration body designed to democratize the process of decision making. "We were able to demonstrate what the radicals deny-that there is a wide...
...logic of the Constitution is as valid today as it was in 1789," said Shea. "When you ask a family to send their sons to war, you ask the people through their elected representatives to participate in the awesome judgment...
...left with the freedom, but also the necessity of inventing ourselves. Instead of finding meaning in our lives, we must first find a direction. The Vietnamese, for example, are different. Their condition presents them with the necessity of fighting American aggression. They accept that necessity as valid and meaningful. They can therefore find meaning in the lives they are forced to lead. From them, we will have to learn...