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Kids & Responsibility. New Canaanites turned to the ministers for fuller explanations. Were Young Lifers imbibing a Bible-belt version of the Gospel, which made their drinking, dancing, smoking parents look like sinners? Said Episcopal Minister Grant Merrill: "The leaders tend in the direction of fundamentalism. They give easy answers to life's most difficult problems. There is one central headquarters in the West. Their workers are trained there for a few weeks or so, but they are not well trained. Then they come to a community without being responsible to anyone but a headquarters, and that headquarters...
...wrong more clearly, so as to provide a better moral support, and to focus the feeling of sacredness on fitter objects, instead of worshiping supernatural rulers. It will sanctify the higher manifestations of human nature in art and love, in intellectual comprehension and aspiring adoration, and will emphasize the fuller realization of life's possibilities as a sacred trust...
...Nature," says Buckminster Fuller, "always builds the most economic structures." With his geodesic dome now in wide use (e.g., at the U.S. exhibition in Moscow last summer), Bucky Fuller has delved into the geometry that underlies nature's structures from the atom to the planetary system, to produce two more pioneering ideas. Last week they were on view in the floodlighted garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Fuller likened the act of making close pitches look like strikes to a lawyer's advocacy--the catcher is simply "presenting a persuasive argument." But, he contended, a football player pretending to be hurt is committing a moral wrong, and engaging in "true deception...
Quoting as his authority "George (Specs) Torporcer, Baseball--From Back Yard to Big League, 1954, pages 55-57," Fuller repiled that there are "sound reasons (having nothing to do with deceiving the umpire)" for bringing a ball into the strike zone...