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...make heroes of the exponents of an eye-for-an-eye philosophy that could incinerate the world? Hasn't history proved that violence can only beget violence? Can we afford this luxury of revenge in a thermonuclear...
...Remember that time is money," Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Advice to a Young Tradesman in 1748. "Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on ... He that kills a breeding sow destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation...
Malign Strand. Now political kidnaping has come to the U.S., whether genuine as in California or possibly simply as a convenient cover in Georgia. Its advent is all the more unnerving because the history of flamboyant crimes is that they beget imitation. One skyjacking inspires another. As a result, perhaps not since the wave of fear brought on by the Lindbergh kidnaping in 1932 have families of wealth and position in the U.S. been so troubled about their safety. Though political in aim, the Hearst kidnaping was essentially a variant graft on that earlier malign strand of U.S. history...
RELEVANCE. More than half the nation's adults were drilled on numbing incantations of the Dick and Jane readers ("See Dick run. See Jane run."). Born in 1931 to Scott, Foresman & Co. of Glenview, Ill., Dick and Jane inspired competing publishers to beget their own families of white, suburban, middle-class Pollyannish imitations: Alice and Jerry, Mark and Janet, Jack and Jean. Now those ninnies are slowly being phased out. With a fanfare of press conferences last fall, Scott, Foresman launched new "reading systems" primers with an interracial cast of characters who change from story to story. Subjects...
...bombings by urban guerrillas on the other, have instilled in students a profound fear of repression and violence. One of the few clear trends on all campuses is a rededication to a Gandhi-like philosophy of nonviolence. Yale's Brewster says: "It is much more clearly recognized that Weatherman beget Minutemen...