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...From Eden is the most important book now available in the field of social science. I cannot recommend it strongly enough for any one who seeks answers to big questions. You may attack his methodology, his technique, his conclusions--but at least he's in the right goddam field. You cannot attack his relevance. His subject matter is the sacred--and that's pretty dame important. The evolution of consciousness is behind all forms of human endeavour and now that we are aware of this evolution, we become part of the process--we take, part in the making...

Author: By Martin S. Barnett, | Title: Explaining the Universe | 5/14/1982 | See Source »

...same as ever for distance but I'll be goddam if I can read--except--and this is funny--under a big umbrella outdoors in a bright sun: under those conditions I seem to read even newspaper type exactly as well without my glasses as with my distance ones (not reading ones--or anyway, almost the same.) If I use my right lens as a magnifying glass and pull it away. I can see as clearly for a fifth of a second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thurber Out of Focus | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...This hedgehogness beats at my brain," he says. "I'm sick of feeling the same goddam thrill--I sort of want to fox it, just go out. I'd just like to be a doctor--I'd love to be a politician. Great politicians are great actors, I think: Caesar, Goethe, Gandhi--they're acting, but in the stuff of life...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Hedgehogness That Beats on the Brain | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

When Stockman arrived at the White House, he was still complaining to Reagan aides that he had been misled by Greider. One of them took Stockman aside just before he entered the Oval Office and warned, "Don't go in and blame it on the goddam article. You and everybody else know that you made a serious mistake." One of the first things Stockman did during the 45-minute lunch with Reagan was offer his resignation. To Stockman's surprise, the President said, "I'll have to give you an answer on that later. There are some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Visit to the Woodshed | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...appear a tad too naive to be believed) causes an unbalanced young woman whom Michael has tried to protect to commit suicide. In that tragedy's aftermath, he says to the reporter: "Couldn't you just see her? Couldn't you stop scribbling, put down your goddam ballpoint and see her?" It is a question all journalists should put to themselves frequently, and we are in this film's debt for raising it. Absence of Malice does not invalidate All the President's Men. But with entertainment values-and a moral sense-every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lethal Leaks | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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