Word: existing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name is 0780212. I live on what you call a "glistening" campus, where I have about as much identity as last year's 14,000 rejects. Perhaps Mr. Gould "can't think of a single possibility for education . . . that doesn't exist in the state university," but I can. Isn't learning about people important any more...
...Thinking" computers, based on random functions, exist today. These machines, programmed to learn by trial and error as humans do, are essentially Turing's robot. Hence, Mortimer Adler's argument is obsolete-and man's uniqueness again becomes questionable...
...Freddy and Jesus are spliced into what perhaps is best described as Super-Hippie, an unspecified figment with the potential to lead man beyond conventional standards of good and evil, beyond neurosis, to a new freedom and a new height of truth. Up there, man-made illusions do not exist, and all opposites are fused. Life is death, good is evil, creation is destruction; the only thing that matters is what goes on inside the confines of each isolated skull...
...think of a single possibility for education in this country," says Chancellor Gould, "that doesn't exist in the state university." Collectively, its campuses offer thousands of courses, ranging from the most abstruse branches of nuclear physics to secretarial training. The university also offers full-credit courses through a television network that reaches 80% of the state's population. On a given day, the Maritime College's 12,000-ton Empire State IV, a refitted troop transport, churns out toward the open sea; a lab class in horticulture at Cobleskill crossbreeds African violets. Future fashion designers...
...Because I know what most people mean when they say God. But if a theologian asked me, I'd say 'Yes and no, let's try to define it.' That's what I tried to do. I tried to define the religious dimension of man, which I think can exist with or without God. I think it makes perfect sense to describe this dimension as an experience of a Supreme Being. Whether it's your own being supreme, or an external thing that seems at the moment to be crucially important. I used Tillich's definition of religion...