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...with this caveat, the bishop invites Catholic psychiatrists to pay special attention to the problems of mystical phenomena (ecstasy, levitation, visions, stigmatization), vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and such common lay problems as sexual aberrations and "the ever practical matter of the validity of the assent given to the marriage contract...
...broad chessboard of international diplomacy, the U.S. moved decisively last week in a gambit that took the breath of professionals for its daring and won the assent of kibitzers for its instinctive rightness. With an open show of sternness, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles advised Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser that the U.S. is no longer interested in building the $1.3 billion Aswan High...
...Hope. And what of the intellectual in a land where privilege has passed to the crowd? The intellectual's true vocation, says Philosopher Sidney Hook, "is critical independence. The intellectual betrays his vocation when he becomes a poet laureate of the status quo. The criterion is neither assent nor conformity . . . My experience has been that most so-called intellectuals are just as conformist to tradition in their immediate circle as the nonintellectuals. Many intellectuals would rather 'die' than agree with the majority, even on the rare occasions when the majority is right." Certainly, says Barzun, the intellectual...
Hidden Asset. In Columbus, Ohio, arrested on a check-forging charge, Chemical Worker John Boston asked the cops, "Is this all you got against me?", grabbed the check when a cop nodded assent, swallowed the evidence...
...Princeton was founded on the postulate that there is a universal spiritual moral foundation on which the university rests. Within that agreement on the fundamental principles it was safe to permit and it was desirable to encourage dissent and dispute. Indeed, dissent is intelligible only when the framework of assent is sound...