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Tillich had felt the full impact of the holocaust that ushered in the modern world; now in the postwar years he joined in the fun and ferment with which that world began. Amid the night life of gay Berlin, he met and courted handsome Hannah Werner, and they were married in 1924. In daylight hours, he and a group of fellow intellectuals talked out a blueprint for the emancipated future; "religious socialism" was what they called it. For the next decade, Tillich cultivated his vineyard-writing and lecturing, teaching theology and philosophy at various universities...
...Nixon, the one active Republican leader who seems acceptable to all factions, to lecture that "the liberals have got to stop trying to read the conservatives out of the party, and the conservatives have got to stop reading the liberals out of the party." On the other hand, the ferment within the party, brought to the right conclusion at the right time, could result in a stronger party on a better road toward strength and even power...
...Commissioner of Education, Francis Keppel, 49, a dark, slight (5 ft. 10 in., 152 lbs.) intense bolt of activity. In three short years in Washington, Keppel has changed the Office of Education from custodian of highly forgettable statistics to the nation's most energetic nerve center of academic ferment...
Euphorically, some people are even beginning to wonder what society might be like without the poor. Would they be missed? After all, the poor provide often beneficial political ferment and a useful troubling of the sluggish conscience. The ancient prophets, and a great many modern ones, were kept in business largely by the poor. In his new book, The Accidental Century, Michael Harrington speculates that "there could be a new, unimpoverished political equivalent of the poor," composed of middle-class people threatened in their jobs by automation and cybernation...
...countless. The fragile inky cap is delicious if gathered young and cooked promptly. Lichen, formed by the union of fungi and algae, eats into rock, prepares it to become new soil. The molds that make Camembert are fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread and ferment grapes, grains, berries, cacti, honey and camel's milk into alcohol. Yeasts keep industry in ferment as well, assist in the manufacture of paint remover, antifreeze, synthetic rubber, adhesives, cosmetics and perfume. Yeast-feeding produces better pelts in mink, more honey from bees, faster growth in trout...