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...Vietnam tried men in other ways. Was courage charging a machine gun or saying no to a wrong war? Or was it merely wise endurance of an insane environment? Four years later, O'Brien is still unsure. "I was brave in one sense," he says. "I had to withstand all that crap of training. In that sense I did all right. On the other side of the coin is the moral question. If I had to do it all over, I probably wouldn't go. But back in the 60s, there were all sorts of social pressures...
...Brien is still plagued by his inconsistency. He wonders just how brave he is, just how brave he has to be. "Do you have to be brave all the time?" he asks. "Or just 10 per cent of the time? I don't know. I'm only batting around .180 or .200. I want a chance to up my average." This, in itself, is a form of courage...
THREE years ago, Congress made a brave attempt to legislate into being technology that did not exist: it told U.S. automakers that by the time 1975-model cars rolled from assembly lines, pollution from auto exhausts would have to be cut to levels Detroit's engineers could not then reach. Ever since, the air has been filled with a smog of contradictory warnings. Environmentalists argue that Detroit must be held to the deadline or it will stall endlessly on the job of cleansing exhausts. Automakers insist that the standards are still technically unfeasible. Last week Environmental Protection Administrator William...
Science did indeed bring forth a Brave New World-of transistors and miniaturized electronics, antibiotics and organ transplants, high-speed computers and jet travel. But progress came at a price. It was the genius of science that also made possible such horrors as the exploding mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the chemically ruined forests of Indochina, the threat of a shower of ICBMs, a plant increasingly littered with technology's fallout. It is this Faustian side of science, with its insatiable drive to conquer new fields, explore new territory and build bigger machines, regardless of costs or consequences that worries...
CYRANO. After weeks of brave resistance to The Crimson's devastating pan, the old boy is about to sheathe his sword, bench his nose and flee to the wilds of New York. Closing, that is, after Saturday's performance, 7:30 at the Colonial...