Word: existance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snow simply states that such sticky complications exist, rather than going through the creative effort of portraying them dramatically. Yet Eliot, as always, emerges as the one character of considerable authenticity. Most likely this is because he contains so many of Snow's own convictions and so much of Snow's concern for the future of the race. Montaigne once said, "I am myself the subject of my works," and for an essayist that was enough. It is not enough for a novelist. In The Sleep of Reason, Eliot seems motivated largely by Snow's need...
...anti-ROTC extremists apparently do not accept the criticality of ROTC to our defense establishment. They persist in the notion that the armed forces will continue to exist and perform their functions, somehow, without ROTC. The blunt truth is that Officer Candidate School (OCS) programs are not attractive to college graduates unless there is extreme pressure from the draft. One reason is obvious: the Army OCS volunteer must serve a three year tour of active duty, not two years as in the case of the ROTC graduate or the college graduate drafted into the Army as a private...
...open interhouse between the dining halls as long as separate dormitories exist for Harvard and Radcliffe...
...sermon, delivered from an altar made of rolled steel slabs, Paul deplored the "separation and lack of understanding" that divides the worlds of labor and religion. "It almost seems that there is no common language be tween you and us," he said. "But this estrangement has no reason to exist. The church knows you, studies you, interprets you and defends you, much more than you often think...
...rates would soon be discovered and that some might well be detected in the process of slowing down. The findings also supported the contention that pulsars are actually neutron stars, strange celestial bodies that were mathematically postulated by scientists in the 1930s but have not yet been proved to exist...