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Blood-Drenched Lies. Twain takes a humorist's advantage of the Bible: he makes the worst possible case for it by interpreting it as literally as possible. The crux of his complaint is his inability to reconcile a good God with all the suffering he saw in the world-an age-old problem that has bothered greater minds and produced greater musings. In the guise of Satan, Twain writes his letters to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel explaining the bizarre beliefs of mortals on a variety of topics: ON GOD: "It is most difficult to understand the disposition...
...crux of Leet's complaint is that the Berkner panel, formed to study the problems of test detection, excluded professional seismologists. They only members of the panel who had any seismological experience were what Leet calls, not derisively but not respectfully, "doodlebuggers,." This is a popular term for seismic prospect seismologists, electronic engineers who use a fraction of the know-how of earthquake seismology. Leet himself is an earthquake station seismologist. His application to work for AFTAC, a unit that presently constitutes the Air Force Vela Uniform test detection project, was turned down on the grounds that Harvard...
According to Rep. William M. Bulger, who introduced one of the proposed acts, "The ideas advanced by the CRIMSON were the crux of the reasons for the defeat of the two bills" He referred to an editorial which appeared in the CRIMSON Monday condemning the bills on the grounds that they were not only "abridgments of academic freedom but violations of the Constitution as well...
Some Americans oppose shelters on the ground that they would create a national "groundhog psychology," or that too much "shelter rattling" might provoke the enemy. Others urge them on the ground that they would be an effective deterrent to attack. Neither view touches the crux of the shelter debate. The important point is that shelters can save lives...
...seeks to explain and provide consolation for otherwise meaningless suffering, and as such he is willing to tolerate it. In the case of personal beliefs, justified to the individual in the way that love justifies itself, Hook suspends rational criticism. That is the individual's own business. The crux of Hook's position is the question: Where does man's moral sense come from? Hook's rigidly pragmatic answer: practical experience leads to a set of rules that men later attribute to a divine source...