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...rural agricultural society to an urbanized, technological world. The effect has been to veil man from what he calls natural symbols?the seasonal pattern of growth?that in the past reminded men of their own finiteness. The question is, says Murray, "whether or not a contemporary industrial civilization can construct symbols that can help us understand...
Last year, Shepard had to construct a pitching staff from scratch. But the two hurlers he unearthed, and who accounted for 11 of the team's 12 wins, are returning: junior Jim McCandlish and senior John Scott...
Mayor Collins has come up with a means of cutting this Gordian knot of politics and red tape. The Adinolfi Report, commissioned by Collins and released last week, proposes that a new city agency be formed to plan and construct all municipal buildings. This "Public Facilities Commission" would be appointed by, and solely responsible to, the mayor. It would conduct long range planning, handle all finances, choose architects, and select building sites. It would have a budget immune to amendment by the City Council, and it would be able to bypass city regulatory agencies and float its own bond issues...
During the interviews I was struck by the high degree of intelligence and lucidity with which most students answered my questions. It reflected a tendency among most of them to think and talk a great deal about taking drugs, and unconsciously construct arguments to defend their habit against the legal and social bans imposed by society. Obtaining drugs is a positive act which goes against the inertia of legal constraints--to ignore the restrictions requires some internal debate. Having decided that drugs were worth it, the students interviewed took particular pains to describe drug-induced sensations which defy verbal cliches...
Within the next year, the MSD began to construct large sewers parallel to the banks of the Charles intercepting all the old local sewers that once flowed directly into the river. This ended the major source of pollution. But these same local sewers also carried storm water and during heavy storms the interceptors were made to overflow into the Charles, to avoid their backing up and clogging local systems. Essentially, this was the method used until this year...