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...religiosity. Forget for the moment the outlandish trappings of his faith, forget his ambition to emulate Icarus by flying into the Sun, forget such mysticism, and one is faced with a man of passionate energy and conviction, but no recognized religion into which to channel his embarassing welter of emotions. Ezra Pound called Crosby's life a "religious manifestation" and his death "a vote of confidence in the cosmos." It may be easy to decry the self-indulgent sensualism in which Crosby ultimately gloried. Yet one cannot avoid placing some of the blame on the society into which...
Child porn poses fewer hazards for the pornographers. Producers of child porn can be prosecuted for sexual abuse of children, but the children are hard to identify and locate. So are the producers, who often hide behind a welter of dummy corporations. Thus most prosecutions are under the obscenity laws, which generally make no distinction between children and adults as porn models. One result: many lawyers believe that the genital pictures in Lollitots, however offensive, might be judged no more obscene under the law than similar photos of adult women routinely published in most men's magazines...
...this welter of conflicting interests-industrial, regional, ideological-Jimmy Carter and Jim Schlesinger must seek to fashion a national consensus. The stage is set for a full-scale political drama, most likely a cliffhanger. As a leading character in that drama, Schlesinger, for all his unwillingness to suffer those he considers fools, should have a reassuring effect. As he puffs on his briar and voices dispassionate opinions about the looming crisis, he exudes the old-fashioned values of patriotism and self-reliance. The energy crisis is making that turn of mind much needed for Americans of today-and tomorrow...
...trial judge, James P. Maguire, only proof that the fetus ever lived outside the mother's body would have legally constituted birth and subjected Edelin to a possible manslaughter conviction. But from the beginning the prosecution's case to prove a live birth rested on a confusing and contradictory welter of evidence. Both at the trial and at the appeal last April, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his argument in emotionalism. Flanagan could not refute the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside the mother's womb, but he could shout, as he did at the appeal...
...trained to help preserve life, often at any cost. But this institution specializes in taking life. Abortion is a lucrative practice, and the income to be gained from it is undoubtedly an inducement. Yet in a larger sense, the staff allow themselves to become intimately wrapped up in the welter of conflicts faced by their patients. At least technically, their part in the decision to perform an operation can be as difficult and as uncertain as that of the women; medical and legal risks are everpresent and diverse--there is not even a definite consensus as to the period...