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...values and modes of living of the enlightened society based on reason, tolerance, and the advancement of science which humane people have dreamed about, and through generations been struggling to create." Perhaps Pusey cannot understand that it is hard to fully savor those values when they contribute or assent to genocidal war and truly anarchic destruction of environmental resources of life...
...values and modes of living of the enlightened society based on reason, tolerance, and the advancement of sentence which humane people have dreamed about and through generations been struggling to create." Perhaps Pusey cannot understand that it is hard to fully savor these values when they contribute or assent to genocidid war and truly anarchic destruction of environmental resources of life...
Beyond these immediate casualties, the action may also bring detrimental long-range political effects. The theory behind the streetfighting was to raise the cost of continuing the war in Vietnam. At the same time, radicals are trying to force liberal politicians out of their passive assent to war policies and into active opposition. But instead of setting up anti-war electoral campaigns. Wednesday's action will probably undercut liberal opposition to suppression of the radical movement. The further notion of the demonstration's leaders, that massing people in the streets will spring Bobby Scale from jail is hardly realistic...
...chair out of reach. He takes off his hat. "Do you mind if I smoke?" he asks. "I'm a cigar smoker, and some people don't like the smell of cigar smoke in the house." Stunned by this unexpected show of courtesy, the man nods assent. The fight drains out of him. "Eventually," said Bodkin, reporting on the outcome, "they shake our hands. We never had another call from them...
...HARVARD did not budge even on those requests to which they had already given their verbal assent. In particular, the tenants have been plagued with difficulties about urban consulting and lack of a real voice in community affairs...