Mr. Harris is rather gloomy about the practice of rights in America. In his book he

had examined three cases where protections (of free speech; against unreasonable search and seizure) that supposedly had been won were not granted. In the first and mildest case--which was also the one where there was the least clear and present danger--a schoolteacher who showed up wearing a black armband in mourning for those who had died in the Cambodian incursion was fired. WFB: "In other words, as far as you're concerned, there is no authority over the subject of decorum in a public school." RH: "Right. The courts have said that you can wear your hair any length; you can wear what clothes you want. Now I don't know what you'd do if somebody arrived in public school without any clothes." WFB: "I know what I'd do." RH: "You'd wrap something around them, as we all would."