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Mentally Able. The problem is simple enough. "Jurors just want to know whether the defendant could have helped himself," says Harvard Law Professor James Vorenberg. "But psychiatrists aren't very good at answering that." Dr. Karl Menninger agrees: " 'Insane' is an expression we psychiatrists don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Fog Times Fog | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

Word Dance, the first bit, is slow and haphazard. The characters dance and freeze, and then one delivers a pungent one-liner. The jokes are not terribly funny (where did you get those big brown eyes and that tiny mind?) but pointless facial expression and vapid delivery don't help...

Author: By Amy Wilentz, | Title: Out to Lunch | 10/18/1975 | See Source »

But it was Reed's own experience, his observation of the Paterson silk strike in 1913, that radicalized him. He saw the lengths to which state and capital would go to crush any expression of solidarity among the workers. The lesson was reiterated a year later for Reed by the...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Radical Wheat, Romantic Chaff | 10/2/1975 | See Source »

It is hard to express yourself in ordinary language because it contains a maximum of misinformation--ambiguity, plurality of meaning, and so on. For Sartre, literary style is very important--he delights in three or four meanings lurking in a single string of words. The French language lends itself to...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Yielding Words & Bodies | 10/2/1975 | See Source »

Harvard has always objected to external interference in its academic affairs. That's why it seemed strange when the University consented last year to aid the Iranian government--notorious for tight control over the minds and actions of its citizens--in founding a graduate research center in Iran. The policies...

Author: By James Cramer and Margaret A. Shapiro, S | Title: Trying to Build Heaven in Hell | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

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