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...planning process, the bill did not impose penalties for states that chose not to plan ahead. "The idea was not to stop growth," said Udall, "but to give it vision and direction." By dodging critical land-use problems, the House and the White House have taken a giant step backward...
...cruel plantation owners. Though he successfully showed that many slaves were well fed and cared for, he accepted the notion that plantations were not run for a profit. Instead, he argued, plantations, "were the best schools yet invented for the mass training of that sort of inert and backward people...
...that these two realms of knowledge stand opposed. The "scientific method" for all its contributions to modern life remains "emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty." And Romantic knowledge stands outside shouting obscenities and muttering about human value spontanity and grace. Pirsig's chautuaquas trace this division of knowledge backward into antiquity. Then they move forward into a "root-expansion" of scientific thinking. He attempts a synthesis that unites Romantic and Classical knowledge and overcomes their fatal opposition...
POPULATION GROWTH. I think our population can be an asset if it is used and trained and educated in the proper way. We must enter the era of technology. We cannot continue being backward, or we will perish like the Indians in the U.S. If the Indians had mastered technology, they would have fought you until this century...
...author, really admits that Richard the good may in fact be Richard the bad, a brother whose sexual advances perhaps drove Sister Meg insane in the first place. Thereafter, as Meg is re-examined and taken away in a straitjacket, the book erupts with dramatic clues that flare backward and forward through the narrative like thin, ignited trains of gunpowder, creating any number of tantalizing questions. Among them: Did Richard invent Meg? Is Meg the other half of Richard's tormented personality? Did Meg invent Richard? Is there a Richard...