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...spellbinders. In Wheelis' tale, though, the hero must fight without magic weapons or supernatural sponsors-conditions that do not ensure happy endings. In Craig, what once might have been thought to be evil is now seen as psychosis. Ariana is Sleeping Beauty, but no kiss is going to awaken her from the stupor that keeps her with Craig...
...when Chambers testified that Alger Hiss had been an espionage agent of Moscow, he hoped to awaken America to the relentless political struggles of the era. The country was not ready for the revelation. What resulted was no intellectual inquiry but a raw political charade of blame and guilt. The Left was deeply discredited. The Right was besmirched and divided by the tac tics of Senator McCarthy. Almost everyone, liberals in particular, heaped abuse on Chambers, who was regarded, at worst, as some sort of a malignant monster; at best, as an informer who had nothing to offer...
...will the Subcommittee of Six merely awaken one morning with the certain knowledge that something is gone forever, without ever being sure exactly what...
...Watt (University of California at Davis), and a few others. In terms of public recognition, perhaps the outstanding figure in the field is Barry Commoner of Washington University in St. Louis (see box, page 58), who has probably done more than any other U.S. scientist to speak out and awaken a sense of urgency about the declining quality of life. Last week he addressed 10,000 people at Northwestern University, where young activists staged the first of a series of major environmental teach-ins that will climax in a nationwide teach-in on April 22. In varying degrees, the once...
...Commoner, Population Expert Paul Ehrlich and Ecologist Lamont Cole. Northwestern's activists say they expect as many as 10,000 people to attend half-hour sessions throughout the night on such issues as the depletion of natural resources and the psychological problems of overcrowding. The organizers hope to awaken a public awareness that survival itself is at stake. Says Hayes: "We're going to have to bring about some very profound changes in our society...