Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Sir: If a New Jersey superior court judge can deny the right of a couple to adopt a child on the basis of their being atheists [Dec. 7], what then prevents the state from taking a child from natural parents whose convictions likewise "prevent the child's freedom to worship as she sees fit"? There may be a distinction, but if Judge Camarata's decision is upheld, there may not be one for long...
...Sir: To deny a child the right to a family because the parents are not churchgoers seems to me a giant leap forward to the age of the Spanish Inquisition...
...Sir: When are we going to reach the age of enlightenment concerning people? Judge Camarata's decision is based on the premise that all good guys come from religious homes and all bad guys from some other kind of home...
...Sir: Your review of Scrooge [Dec. 7] could have been written by the old grouch himself before transformation. It was a perfect family movie. Dickens himself would have enjoyed...
...Sir: In your story on Khrushchev's reminiscences [Dec. 7], you report an odd linguistic controversy about the proper affectionate and intimate variation of the name Svetlana in Russian. Nikita Khrushchev says Stalin called his daughter Svetlanka. But in Russian the ending nka is usually used in talking to pets, as in Anton Chekhov's story about the dog Kashtanka. Stalin's daughter says her father always called her Svetochka. Since Stalin, the author of Marxism and Linguistics, fancied himself an expert on the Russian language, as on everything else, it still may be hard to argue...