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Penologists already agree that only about 15% of convicted people are so dangerous or hopeless as to require imprisonment. The new consensus is that many offenders should remain either in or close to their communities and be taught how to cope with life and work under close supervision. Toward that end, Menninger's most intriguing idea is the establishment of psychiatric-help centers for criminally inclined misfits. Unfortunately, he is quite vague about it. If the centers resembled public mental hospitals, which often lack procedural safeguards, the "treatment" might be worse than imprisonment. Menninger's book deserves...
This structural limitation explains why the COH deals with small problems rather than policy decisions. When a decision-making body can't even reach a consensus on the few issues thrust upon it by the rapidly changing outside world, the question of the ability of that body to initiate meaningful farsighted reform becomes irrelevant. The city of Cambridge would have to enter the Twilight Zone before the COH as presently constructed would ever initiate any of the social reforms so obviously desired at Harvard College...
...Vatican III. "So much has happened that the fathers of Vatican II could not have anticipated," says Publisher Dan Herr of Chicago's bimonthly Critic, "that another council cannot be delayed." One obvious topic for the agenda would be a new ruling on contraception to reflect the consensus of the faithful. Another, suggests Theologian Gregory Baum of Toronto, would be a definition "of the limits of papal authority and the freedom to be given local churches." It is taken for granted by those who dream of Vatican III that priests and laymen would be represented, as well as bishops...
Against Harvard, Brian Dowling and his crew "can't miss," Yale believes. Sports Information Director Charlie Loftus expressed the New Haven consensus when he jokingly told Crimson coach John Yovicsin "We would like to invite Vic Gatto to speak at our victory dinner again this year." Some joke...
Life Reclaimed. That seems to be the consensus of most thoughtful Americans. After a spartan self-denial that lasted ten years, Boston Psychiatrist Peter Reich and his wife recently bought a set. Mrs. Reich explained: "Television is part of our culture, and having TV will give the kids a feeling of knowing what everyone else knows." Similarly, Dr. Richard Kenyon, an official of the American Chemical Society in Washington, reclaimed his set after two years' banishment. "If you are without it these days, you are a little too out of touch with the stream of modern life," he says...