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Lessons for Children. Author de Beauvoir is at her brightest and best in describing the sort of exasperation that takes a keen-witted, methodical man when he tries to get the better of a girl who lives stubbornly by whim and base instinct. The more Pierre tries to discipline Xaviere, the more apt she is to turn up at the wrong place at the wrong time, or to keep an appointment for an intellectual talk at a sidewalk cafe loaded down with a bag of shrimp and bananas...
...down some of the overly-broad anti-Communist measures in the McCarran Act. It is the same kind of battle fought by men like Justice Sutherland on behalf of another kind of liberty twenty years ago. The same principles are there: that individual liberty needs Court protection from legislative whim; that "a state does not possess a sovereign right to behave unreasonably in its relations with its subjects"; that arbitrary subversive legislation can easily be extended to permit the grossest kind of abuse...
...bona fide insurance system. Former Commissioner Altmeyer admitted this in the recent hearings conducted by the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. Thus, the present system is already one which, to use the words of the Harvard CRIMSON, is "subject to change at the whim of legislators." However, this does not concern me because I apparently have more faith in the Congress of the United States than the editors of the CRIMSON...
Such a step could serve only to completely destroy public confidence in the Social Security system. Workers now plan both their life insurance and their retirement savings with knowledge that they will get a sizable sum from the Social Security system. With the system subject to change at the whim of legislators like Representative Curtis--men convinced that each person is morally responsible for his own welfare--there could be only social insecurity...
...Review is not a social organization where membership is subject to private whim. It is a board composed of the professionally superlative. To deny membership for personal reasons has no place in the scope of its work. It is inescapable as the reductio ad absurdum of such a proposition that the academically inferior five percent will inherit the organ through denial of privilege to those who earned the invitation and the opportunity to prove themselves...