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...conscience measurement," to be called the "Stowe" in honor of the "only writer in history who had an effect on the course of world affairs." What disturbed Vonnegut, though, was the knowledge that people "having read Uncle Tom's Cabin and cried, feel that they have somehow dealt with the problem...
...slum, which typically is the section of any city with the highest concentration of the mentally retarded. Initial testing showed that retarded mothers are likely to have retarded children, but did not reveal the reason. Heber and Garber suspected that it was the way in which the retarded mothers dealt with their children that made the critical difference between them and the children of equally impoverished mothers of normal intelligence...
Cassavetes' earlier Faces and Husbands dealt with the terrible toll exacted by emotional commitment. Minnie and Moskowitz deals with the positive, sometimes desperate need for that same commitment. Its theme, familiar but here recharged with emotion, is the search of two people for an anodyne to loneliness. Created in a mood of sustained ebullience, it is his lightest, most accessible film, and one of the few movies in recent times that could be called joyous...
...dogma, which held that the earth was the center of the universe and that other worlds were lifeless, the Polish astronomer Copernicus and his followers thought otherwise. Although he prudently did not publish his epic work On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies until he lay on his deathbed, Copernicus dealt the earth-centered universe of Ptolemy its final blow. After years of observations, he concluded it was the sun?and not the earth?that occupied center stage; the earth, he said, was simply one of several planets that spun around the parent sun. A zealous disciple, the Dominican monk Giordano...
After several days of debate, the conference selected three priority programs, but--fearing over-centralization--said only that local chapters "should" participate in one of them. The three priorities selected were: the economy, anti-corporate organizing and war and imperialism. A child care proposal--which dealt with the entire question of child socialization--was narrowly defeated in the closest vote of the conference. In a compromise settlement, its important provisions were tacked on to the economy proposal. All the priorities were long and somewhat vague; local chapters will be able to interpret them broadly...