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...would your presidency differ from others...
MODERN MAN'S adaptation to science is the theme Theodore Sturgeon writes about, and his assumptions and conclusions differ radically from Bova's Sturgeon feels that 20th century man worships science, a good who is "omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, master of that terrible trinity of hope, fear and power." He examines what he considers a mysterious phenomenon. The reading public fails, or refuses, to discriminate between good and bad science fiction, and condemns all. There is an answer for the lack of judgement...
Flowing Surpluses. The two episodes differ quite sharply, of course. Khashoggi is a veteran absentee investor in California banks; Sarakbi has no banking experience and has declared his intention that Community National "would serve as a liaison between Pontiac and the Middle East." Yet both deals amply demonstrate the kind of wrenching problems, emotional as well as economic, that many communities will be grappling with when oil-country surpluses begin to flow heavily into the U.S. in the form of investments in property and businesses, big and small. In fact, Americans will simply be experiencing what people in other lands...
...opposite poles. It is in this way that we are manipulated by the words we tolerate and use." Fairlie echoes Orwell's warning against allowing abstract words to choose our thought and disguise from us the real meaning of what we want to say. But Fairlie is quick to differ with the author of "Politics and the English Language,""I have never been impressed with that essay," he writes, explaining that the politician is entitled to a language distinct from that employed by the man of letters, by Schlesinger's men of the "true word." The language of politics must...
...tolerance of divergent views may well grow out of his background. The son of an immigrant stonemason from northern Italy, he grew up in heavily Protestant South Carolina, where, he told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, "I learned early in life how to live with people whose beliefs differ from my own." He attended public high school and the University of South Carolina before entering St. Mary...