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Where is the act of purpose, the work of thought to come from? Even with the will to achieve it, deliberately acquiring a consensus may sound as absurd as deliberately deciding to fall in love. But for those about to embark regretfully on a dubious, consensusless future, Father Murray has a further word. "It just happens," he says in effect, "that I have here a device which any reasonably intelligent person may apply to lead him to the consensus, the public philosophy." And with an urbane, engaging smile, out of his long black clericals he pops it: natural...
Three-hundred and seventy upperclassmen are willing to embark on a two year program designed to send Harvard graduates to teach secondary school in Nigeria. They are willing to go even if the program does not guarantee exemption from the draft...
...Puerto Rican bishops' pastoral letter came from an editorial in the Jesuit weekly America. "Such a prohibition," the magazine argued, "is unprecedented in American Catholic history. Catholics in the United States cannot but wonder about the na ture of a situation which would persuade church leaders to embark on a course of action so open to misinterpretation, not to say futility...
...recent rapid diffusion of military power leads one to suspect that it will not be long before the influence of these countries will become a heavy one indeed, and the traces of bipolarity remaining from the immediate postwar days will disappear. Finally, Black maintains that the West should embark on this "series of adventures," as he calls it, for its own sake, "to provide a means of reasserting its own identity with the ideals of liberty and tolerance...
...says "I fear thou art another counterfeit;/And yet, in faith, thou bearest thee like a king," we nod in inward and compelled assent. His face bears the signs of his shaken age, "wan with care," and there is a poignancy to his recurring mention of his desire to embark on a Crusade that becomes near unbearable when the dying King asks to be carried to the Jerusalem Chamber: It hath been prophesied to me many years I should not die but in Jerusalem, Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. But bear me to that chamber; there...