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...Germany's great pessimistic philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, laughter was man's dauntless ally in the battle against "that strict, untiring, troublesome governess, Reason." Man laughs whenever he can get the best of her, as in nonsense jokes, or when he finds connections that reason would surely forbid. The witticisms of Oscar Wilde nicely support the argument. After his imprisonment, for instance, Wilde said: "If this is the way the Queen treats her convicts, she doesn't deserve to have...
...beginning in Long Beach. He also blames pollutants for the rising number of deaths from emphysema in Southern California. Trouble may well loom for Los Angeles, which sits in a smoggy bowl that often contains only 300 ft. of air. Almost every other day, the city's public schools forbid children to exercise lest they breathe too deeply...
...Senate, composed of 78 faculty and administration officials and 23 students, recommend that existing classified contracts be made non-classified or terminated within one year. The new regulations also forbid the university to accept any contract in which the outside organization, public or private, requests the power to veto publication of the research findings...
...Columbia Senate adopted regulations on Friday which forbid the university to accept classified research contracts...
...Kelman urged his colleagues "to give serious thought to the advisability of their own participation" in the Cambridge Project. But neither he nor Ptashne suggested that Harvard forbid individual participation in the Project; "I feel strongly that the decision... must be left to the judgment of each individual," Kelman said...