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...gain is in a public informed, in time to redress wrongs. Advantage and disadvantage are not always in neat balance. Where in other societies only authority prevails, here what is not authority's domain is left to conscience. The heartening fact, to judge by the record, is that the graver the issue, the more the editor hears from his conscience...
...seems to be coming from philanthropic groups and Ivy League profesors now. The efforts of the scientists who said last week they are trying to raise $1 million for books, equipments and medical aid for Vietnam should be matched and surpassed by the federal government, which has a far graver responsiblity to the Vietnamese people...
...problems with the welfare system are far graver than Harrington makes out. It is not just more money that's needed: the whole system must bereorganized so that it is controlled from the bottom up, not managed by faceless bureaucrats. If Marx taught us anything, it was that freedom cannot be conferred from above--people must have the opportunity to organize their own lives and discover their own dignity and worth. Frederick Wiseman's recent documentary, Welfare, made it amply clear that both freedom and dignity are absent in the current welfare system...
Though the cast is far from blameless, the graver error lies with Director Anthony Page. When Lear goes mad on the storm-blistered heath, it is not because his daughters Goneril and Regan have turned their backs on him but because God has. Shakespeare means us to know that the universe itself has reached its apocalyptic hour, and he asks his white-locked King to look upon the dethronement of all order, a grotesque, absurd, horrifying realm of meaninglessness. Instead, Page has encouraged Morris Carnovsky to stress the "foolish fond old man" in Lear, petulant, bewildered and sorely vexed...
...most fundamental danger to NATO and Western society is the socio-economic phenomenon. The aspects of this problem are far graver than some have interpreted them to be. For the first time there are definite limitations to raw materials, especially energy. Beyond that, there are rising expectations, which are largely the product of our success in a market economy. These expectations are referred to as egalitarian economics, and they pose a dilemma for Western governments. If qualitative excellence has been abandoned in favor of an egalitarian approach, that is a built-in contradiction to a market economy...