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Alpert said it was impossible to recount the drug experiences to persons who have not taken the drugs. This 'breakdown in communications," he suggested, was partially responsible for the "fear and hostility" he has encountered...
...background in religion when you arrived at Harvard? II. While at Harvard, how has your religion been affected--helped or hindered... III. Conversely, how has your religion affected--helped or hindered-- your own intellectual development, social situation, and moral life?" The editors have not attempted to give a statistical breakdown of replies to the poll. Instead they have looked for "a test of attitudes, a sense of the believer's strains and his successes, an insight into things that concern him most deeply." This they do largely by giving representative quotes from the students themselves. The quotes they choose...
...Freyre's second volume, written in 1936, has now been translated by Harriet de Onis, mother of the New York Times's Brazil cor respondent. Titled The Mansions and the Shanties (Knopf; $10), the book traces the growth of the cities in the 19th century and the breakdown of slavery (formally abolished in 1888), and cheerfully argues that a major reason for Brazil's immense vitality is miscegenation. "Perhaps in no other country," writes Freyre, "is it possible to rise so quickly from one social class to another, from one race to another, from one region...
...report to President Kennedy, the Civil Rights Commission said: "The open and flagrant violation of Constitutional guarantees in Mississippi has precipitated serious conflict. Each week brings fresh evidence of the danger of a complete breakdown of law and order...
...breakdown of military and economic aid given to foreign countries and groupings from July...