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...board of trustees of C.I.A.--the Disney people--are greatly removed in sensibility from the people who actually teach. They had hoped for a nice art school, a Western Julliard perhaps; instead, what appears to be the most advanced art school anywhere in the US grew out of the ferment, and some of the side effects are frightening to those who had been looking at all this Disney business as a money-making proposition. Nonetheless, both places are attempting feverishly to regain innocence through technology. It has already liberated their hands from labor, and the question now is can technology...
...defining revolution so that most countries are eliminated, he hurdles some of his arguments major inadequacies. First he dismisses ferment in the rest of the world with some biased sleight of hand. He rejects the African nations because they seek out their non-colonial heritage. Therefore they are inevitably counter-revolutionary. He discounts the People's Republic of China as an irrelevant agrarian nation. For Revel political democracy is absolutely essential, economic equality relatively unimportant. Socialist states, including anything from Sweden to the Soviet Union, disqualify themselves because they are anti-democratic one way streets. He considers Western Europe culturally...
...Pacific theater, winning medals at Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima. In Viet Nam he was an able successor to General Lewis Walt as commanding general, 3rd Marine Amphibious Force. For the past 21 years he has served as deputy director of the CIA, missing much of the ferment and debate that has shaken the services...
...Whealon-are scarcely more moderate. Since seven of the church's eleven U.S. episcopal regions voted that celibacy be discussed at the synod, the delegates will at least go to Rome with a mandate to talk about the issue, and they will also report on the ferment among U.S. priests. They will carry with them the consensus of the conference that men already married might be admitted to the priesthood under special conditions. But the delegates-and a majority of U.S. bishops-are opposed to optional celibacy, and that is the message they will take to Rome...
...disastrous challenge: he must either kill the kalunait or exile himself. "But killing men was not our custom," says Avinga, "and it had not been done in living memory." With no reasonable solution possible, the Eskimo simply withdraws. He is never seen again. Soon afterward, the whalers ferment some berry wine, ply the remaining Eskimos with it and so produce a drunken dance that becomes a bewildered travesty of the first. When the final tragedy comes, it is clear that something as fragile as a principle of civilization-the Eskimos', not the whites' -has been shattered...