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According to Fairbank, another important cultural barrier is our inability to understand the importance of "face" or personal prestige as a motive force in everyone's life in East Asia...
...near when track officials will have to reclassify the mile as a dash instead of a run. In the 13 years since Britain's Roger Bannister opened the floodgates by running a 3-min. 59.4-sec. mile, no fewer than 84 athletes have cracked the mythical 4-min. "barrier"-running a total of 278 sub-4-min. miles. Tops among them, of course, is Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas junior who at 20 is already the fastest middle-distance runner of all time. Last month in Bakersfield, Calif., Ryun lowered his own world record for the mile...
What happened was this. The Presbyterian Church in May completed a nine-year process of revising its confessional standards. Under the American equivalent of the Scottish Barrier Act (which guards against hasty ecclesiastical legislation by requiring that changes in church law be approved by a General Assembly, then be sent down to the presbyterians for their approval, and finally be approved by the next annual General Assembly), what is called "The Confession of 1967" was presented to the General Assembly meeting in Boston in May, 1966. It included a phrase that urged the pursuit of peace, "even at risk...
...adopted a strong resolution of dissent and warning about the war in Vietnam. It is a good Confession, both from the perspective of faith and for the sake of the world. But it is too late by two generations, and it took too long to get through the Barrier Act once the decision to formulate it was taken...
...unmanly to protect the home; the animal feels that it must boss the household, and so attacks anybody who comes around. The secretary syndrome arises when the master works late at the office; the dog becomes tense and irritable because its master is not at home on time. In barrier frustration, the dog gets infuriated because it cannot break its lesh. Psychosexual misorientation is something esle. If the pup has been weaned in a "traumatic" way, it ewill indicate maladjustment by "narcissitic behavior" (overeating and excessive scratching) and "preoccupation with oral behavior in general" (biting the postman...