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...astronomy professor, Liller roomed all four years in Adams House with a history major. He sees diversity as one of the main strengths of the House and of the College. Though he follows an English professor, retiring master Reuben Brower, he hopes that his being a scientist will not reshape Adams' image...
...unbroken living chain that extends back to the origin of life on earth. From a long-ago beginning down to each of us here, it has never failed to reproduce itself well." The concept of "organic wholeness" is more than just an observation; it is an ethic, and Brower is calling for the cultivation of a conscience in the way we treat the earth...
...something to it: people who feel a little awed at the top of a mountain, or even those who prickle when they hear a Simon and Garfunkel record, are likely to know what he means. But it's easy for talk like that to degenerate into guff, and Brower seems somewhat uncomfortable when he has to play the role of visionary...
That may be because the amorphous movement he is helping to lead is still just beginning to get people's attention. It is still hard to show that the science and the ethics of the environment are bound up with each other. Brower looks toward the possibility of making jobs for people who can comfortably practice both, but for now he has had to spend most of his time just telling people the right questions...
...Obviously that's not an answer," Brower says, "only a method. But the answers have to come. With consumption doubling every decade, we've got to recognize that our generation cannot responsibly commit future ones to the kind of world they will have. That's what we're doing now. When it happens in an individual, we call it cancer...