Editorial
CORRESPONDENCE $inki~l Ships Brooklyn, N.Y. To the Editors: Re Frank Getlein's analysis of Henry Kissinger's Attila-theHun-like role in world affairs ("The Graves of Aeademe"--Jan. 21)...
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...Such decisions raise serious questions about the future: Is the Court that in 1954 began to lead the nation out of the morass of segregation now going to slow that march or even halt it altogether...
...And it happened in the spring of 1934 that he hit upon a challenging pedagogical device...
...Throughout his life, from his early days in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame, George continually manifested a warm and human interest in developing potential talent...
...Instead, it and other suburbs can now continue to restrict dwellings to one-family houses on very large plots--as long as it cannot be proved that the restrictions are racially motivated...
...Occasionally there would be a major article or review under his name or a review with his initials...
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...This newest decision of the Court gives legal approval to the maintenance of an iron curtain separating the American city and suburb, and as such it is a stunning reversal for all who hoped to see the suburbs bear some fair share of the nation's urban crisis...
...I was lucky enough, however, to be with Commonweal for several of the ten years during which he was getting out the magazine as Managing Editor...
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...We have never considered busing the ideal solution to racial imbalance...
...But if the suburbs are to stay lily-white and the cities increasingly black, how are neighborhoods to be integrated...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 SUBURBAN IRON CURTAIN Anyone who doubts that the power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court is one of the major powers of a president has only to look at the recent Arlington Heights decision...
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...20005) ran Roger L. MacBride for President last year on a platform (Continued on page 127) NEWS ~ VJEWS: 08 CORRESPONDENCE: 90 EDITORIAL: O0 GEORGE N. SRUSTER: 1894-1977: Edward S. Skillin 100 WASHINGTON REPORT: Clashing Symbols: Frank Getlein 101 RF~PRESSION IN ARGENTINA: Robert F. Drinan 103 THE APATBI~I'IC VOTER: Abigail McCarthy 105 ANGLICANIR.C...
...O O O O O O O O O O O O O O 1894-1977 GEORGE N. SHUSTER It would hardly be possible to do justice in brief compass to the long and varied and distinguished career of George N. Shuster, who died January 25 at the age of 82...
...Great |ritain ALAIN WOODROW: Par/s HENRY TEN KORYENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager StaR: LINDA F. KAYLER, PAMELA J. FITZGERALD, HARRILrlrTE IIALSKY COMMONWEAL A review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts...
...First of all I recall him as a patient and encouraging mentor...
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...In this case, for instance, the Chicago suburb involved would have had to accept an apartment development in which 40 percent of the units were to be occupied by blacks...
...Thanks to the Supreme Court, it is again obvious for all to see that this is, in Tom Wicker's quotation from the Kerner Commission report, "two societies, one black and one white --separate and unequal...
...The plain fact is that in the Arlington Heights case the Court has given us a bad decision, one that is likely to haunt the nation for years to come...
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...integrated neighborhoods that produce their own integrated schools are infinitely preferable, and busing is, or should be, a measure of last resort, as last year's Democratic platform pointed out...
...And how often is there going to be any real chance of proving that...
...The "Reagan-ConnaUy-Helms connection" deserved all they g o t ~ for their mania for ever more power to the Pentagon, their hatred of civil liberties, their complacency towards handouts for Big Business...
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...It has always been my generation's (40 and over) ingenuous belief that, just as the captain was last to abandon ship, so were our chief executives required to take the lion's share of responsibility for their administration's failures...
...Significantly enough, Justice White, who wrote the majority opinion in the earlier Davis case, dissented in the Arlington Heights ruling, saying that the new decision enunciated "a legal standard nowhere mentioned in Davis"---an indication that the Court has now moved in an even more conservative direction...
...Each week he would assign to Philip Burnham, the late Frederic Thompson and me paragraph topics for a strictly condensed "Seven Days Survey" of the news...
...In reality, such a rule is bound to perpetuate racial discrimination, for normally speaking it will be impossible to prove any such intent in a court of law, however real and glaring the end result may be...
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...He early called for a reexamination of traditional Catholic positions on sexual morality...
...Only, said the majority opinion, when it could be shown that there was an "intent" or "purpose" to discriminate--only if it could be proved that the suburb in question refused a zoning change because it wanted to exclude members of a minority racial group...
...When would such a policy be called unconstitutional...
...They are not slow to take the credit for its triumphs--vide Nixon and the moon-landing...
...Thus this decision appears to be the latest in a continuing series of ever more conservative rulings from the Court on racial matters...
...Getlein give the "conservatives" what-for [Washington Report, Dec...
...21) may this "non-adulator" of the former Secretary of State inquire what were the alleged heads of state doing in the meanwhile, including the on-the-roadto-being-deified (it's past canonization) the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy...
...No one doubts the right of a community to set reasonable standards, but this should not mean the right to totally exclude other Americans of low and moderate incomes...
...Or to give an adequate idea of what he accomplished for his fellow man and for the Catholic Church in America...
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...And in that case, what chance other than busing is there to achieve integration in American schools...
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...Then he would publish our paragraphs in what he considered to be the order of their merit...
...What the Court seems intent on establishing in the Arlington Heights and similar cases, then, is a judicial rule, applying in all cases, that discrimination or segregation must not only be a fact if it is to be ruled out...
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...But George Shuster will probably be remembered more for the stands that he took than for his remarkable productiveness and versatility...
...In view of all this, it will be interesting now to hear from some of the most vocal enemies of school busing to achieve racial balance in the schools...
...It was this case which was cited as precedent in the Arlington Heights decision...
...Obviously these beauties see nothing wrong with the power of the state, just so long as it's used for theb' favorite causes, and as Getlein points out there is "no chance whatever" that they will ever create a party to challenge it...
...And, might I add, their hostility to the private property rights of those Americans who choose to smoke something other than tobacco...
...Getlein and his readers that there already is such a party...
...Then I remember the prodigious amount of writing of his own, on the widest range of subjects, that he contributed to each issue of the magazine especially in the late twenties and early thirties...
...The Court held that such a refusal does not violate the Constitution just because it admittedly has a "racially disproportionate impact...
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...To cover his tracks, George soon had to create two frequently recurring, mysterious "contributors": Paul Crowley, "a literary critic for American reviews" and Ambrose Farley, "a translator and teacher of classical poetry...
...It was personally very instructive...
...In the light of the Arlington Heights decision, suburbs are relieved of the need to share in any kind of affirmative action to help solve the housing crisis in the adjoining city--in which, it should be said, many of the suburb's residents make their comfortable living while paying little or no taxes for Commonweal: 99 the privilege...
...Even then, the Court said, the suburb would not be declared to be in the wrong if it had other reasons for its action as well as discriminatory ones...
...As an early American antagonist of the Nazis, he conducted a vigorous campaign against American 18 February 1977:100...
...The Arlington Heights ruling follows a decision last year in the case of Washington v. Davis, in which the Court ruled that clear proof of racially discriminatory intent, and not just a racially discriminatory impact or effect, was needed to establish a case of unconstitutional racial discrimination in the schools...
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...Or does today's Martian visitor to earth demand--"Take me to your Secretary of State...
...At Commonweal he had a special opportunity to encourage young writers, giving them their first chance at publication...
...There would be pages of his editorials and several reviews of all sorts of books, unsigned, in issue after issue...
...Nixon, the Court in that case ruled 6 to 3 that it is not unconstitutional for a suburb to refuse to ease zoning restrictions which in fact effectively prevent the construction of racially integrated housing for persons with low and moderate incomes...
Vol. 104 • February 1977 • No. 4
