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...Taiwan's future: I am always optimistic. The first thing we must do is establish stability and ensure our survival. After that we can concentrate on development and finally we can attain victory. I would like the American people to realize that their genuine, true friends are here in this country. I have every confidence that we can continue our friendship. There is a Chinese expression that no one can wield a knife to cut the ties between two close friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Interview with Taiwan's President | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...inspiration, an innermost quest, rather than a figure who judges and puts you in hell or heaven." God is the perfection within man, not an outside creator. Chitrabhanu describes mankind as the last stage of evolution, a stage at which it is possible--though unlikely--for man to attain perfection. "Man is in a refined stage but there is one more step, to perfection, to cosmic experience, to omega consciousness...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu: On Achieving Omega Consciousness | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...models that in their crisscross of small rectangular shapes and larger blocks resemble models for imaginary buildings or cities. They were, in a very rarefied sense, social blueprints, though quite unworkable ones. Perhaps Russia was the only country in which artists could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large Suprematist Relief (1920-26), finished a few years before he died at 27, lays no stress on its materials; it is a pure proposition of the kind of half religious ideal that was soon to be censored out of Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: At the Meeting of the Planes | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Still, happyology has defaulted so far on the really big question: Why are people happy or why not? And more fundamental, what is happiness? The young science is far from the practical goal of providing guidance on how to attain happiness. "Alas," says Freedman, "the overwhelming finding of all the research is that there is no easy solution, no foolproof strategy for finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...bottom line, the Faculty created tutorials to accomplish two ends: integrate a field and teach methodology. Graduate students--verve or no verve--lack the breadth of knowledge or expertise of professors that might enable them to attain these high ideals. With only haphazard guidance from a head tutor, graduate student instruction is essentially a case of you pays your money, you takes your chances...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Tutorials: Aging Gracelessly | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

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