Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Allen Ginsberg or Timothy Leary. They also offer lots of free verse on the joys of copulation, distinguished from John Donne's comparable rhapsodies by a self-conscious injection of four-letter words doggedly intended to shock. The movement's bard is Bob Dylan (when in doubt, New Leftists always sing). But on the whole the New Left distrusts the hippies and the beats, who want to drop out of society...
There can be no doubt but that West German TV broadcasts are received in East Germany and that such broadcasts do carry a certain load of propaganda. But the West Germans are amateurs in the art of political propaganda, as anyone will ascertain who has ever had the pleasure of listening to the "Deutschlandsender" or even the "Freiheitssender 904". In any case, West Germany does not jam East German broadcasts or punish those whose TV antennas are turned to the wrong direction...
...recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food? I will leave you if you doubt I am of no greater importance than a butterfly...
...betraying his faith in doubt, Brecht argues, Galileo also betrayed a new age of reason in which scientists would control their own discoveries for the good of common humanity. This is rather naive because it assumes that people alter power rather than that power alters people. It leads Brecht into his customary fallacy of assuming that power is good in the hands of workers and scientists and bad in the hands of statesmen, clerics and generals. As a historical determinist, Brecht curiously calls for a needless martyrdom. With or without Galileo's recantation, an age of science was inevitable...
...golf team suffered a shattering 4-3 upset loss to Holy Cross yesterday to end a four-match winning streak and cast serious doubt on the squad's ability to stand up to Ivy powers Penn and Columbia today in New York...