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...fact did not make any of them a traitor, either in law or in morals. No fair-minded man would deny their right to their opinions, or the obligation of their fellow" citizens to defend their right to voice them. But the legal right to be wrong had somehow gotten distorted into a lazy toleration that assumes all ideas to be created equal, part right, part wrong-and who is man to try to judge between them? It was this soft public negligence about ideas that made wrong ideas dangerous...
...Third Man. Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene play the Viennese black market for a tidy melo dramatic profit; with Joseph Gotten, Or son Welles and Valli (TIME...
...tattered stranger appeared at the sophomores' door, claiming that he was "a poor merchant seaman off the S.S. Flamingo" who had gotten drunk on pay day and had been robbed of all he had in the world. His spiel ended with an appeal to the open-mouthed listeners to have a warm spot in their hearts for "a poor Irishman who had a wee bit too much to drink...
...Third Man. Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene play the Viennese black market for a tidy melo dramatic profit; with Joseph Gotten, Or son Welles and Valli (TIME...
Watchful Waiting. Under such bitter onslaughts (presumably approved by President Dumarsais Estime) the petition was beaten. For the next three years, members of the Ligue Feminine d'Action Sociale, which had gotten up the petition, quietly watched for another opening. Early this month they saw their chance and struck. Port-au-Prince was crowded with foreign visitors, including representatives of the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Under the guise of organizing a Women's Congress at Haiti's International Exposition, the Ligue Feminine launched an aggressive full-scale feminist crusade...