Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parapsychologists, as they call themselves, receive financial support from highly respectable sources. Harvard, if only to prove its open-mindedness, is currently bankrolling the efforts of Physicist Charles Buffler to determine whether there really is something to dousing-looking for water with a forked twig. As yet, he has found no proof. Last summer, the first premonitions lab in the U.S. was opened at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center. So far, the lab has been unable to make a scientific case for the power of premonitions to foretell the future. In Seattle, the Boeing Co. for a time backed...
...them. "We were forced to assume all kinds of awkward and humiliating postures," Carole Geiger later said. Simmons, who was handcuffed and taken to the men's jail-"the Tombs"-was unable to contact his family. He claimed that when he filled out a form requesting that police call his father, a cop quipped: "Do you think these calls really go out?" Simmons was bailed out the next afternoon only because the railroad had advised Carole Geiger's family of the arrests...
...present haphazard approach to exploiting the oceans. One proposal of Stratton's group attempts to revive the spirit of homesteading. To encourage aquaculture, recreation projects and other uses of the sea, the commission recommended the leasing of submerged lands on easy terms to small investors. It proposes to call the arrangement "seasteading...
...aware of the difficulty of making what some people call "value judgments." I am also aware of the dangerous consequences of acting on such judgments, and if we ever reach such a juncture I would fully expect to be repressed by the majority I was fighting against. Nevertheless, granting the existence of evil in the world (though its exact location may be a subject of dispute) and granting that most of us haven't learned the lesson "resist not evil," I do not see how such judgments, such actions, and such consequences can be avoided. Sitting quietly in a room...
...being used as a rubber stamp for the CEP. Agitators are always stirring things up. If they'd only let things alone, everybody's legitimate complaints could be handled separately and amicably. It never seems to occur to these people that the situation itself might produce what they call "agitators," and merely to get rid of a few, for instance, by expelling them, is unlikely to make any significant change in the situation, even if coupled with a program of pacification on campus...