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...parents were Protestant missionaries, and so it was assumed that he would be a minister. At 14, however, the stultifying confinement of school sent him fleeing from the Maulbronn seminary in Swabia. Unable to find a meaning in his life, unhappy with a rigid German society that seemed to crush his artistic sensibilities, he tried to commit suicide. His parents responded by sending him first to a faith healer, then to a school for the mentally retarded. In 1911, he visited India on a spiritual quest. World War I was a "gut, emotional, experience" for Hesse; renouncing German authoritarianism...
...least partly the result of a miscalculation. The students had planned a mass march to one of their campuses occupied by the army, but called it off at the last moment when they heard there were troop concentrations along the route. However, the army, under strict orders to crush the demonstrations at any cost, moved in anyway...
...large chunks would go to improve education, wipe out illiteracy and modernize agriculture. McNamara insisted that the time has come for the bank to invest more money in family planning. Unless checked, he said, overpopulation will add 3 billion people to the world before the century ends, and this crush of humans could undo most projected benefits...
...sense, the airlines have been buffeted by their own success. Airline revenues have more than tripled during the past decade, and the industry expects to transport 300 million passen gers a year on domestic flights by 1975, compared with 125 million last year. Gearing themselves to the crush of expected business, most major carriers have been busily adding new flights to their schedules and laying out huge sums for stretched jet transports, jum bo jets and supersonic aircraft. In the process, they have found themselves trapped in an ever worsening cost-profit squeeze...
...Because of the complete television coverage of the Democratic Convention, the nation was given the opportunity of realizing with sickening force the depths of hypocrisy and the myopic, manipulative selfishness of men like Mayor Daley (characterized by his abortive attempt to crush the spontaneous beauty and sincerity of the tribute for Robert Kennedy by his manufactured demonstration for himself). The goodness and concern of the people in our country who cannot tolerate such a prostitution of democracy will, I pray, triumph in their attempt to create the newer world of truth and love...