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...ever wondered why Dave next door swoons with "a tingling quietness" as he sloshes through the mud of his ricepaddy, moved he says, with "warm all-embracing feelings?" Have you ever pondered a solution to the "indifference of the present world culture?" Does the anagram of earth and heart grab you as really deep? And now we're getting into the swing of it don't you admit, after all, that when you've got it, you haven't, and that what this genesplicing, color-telly gaping, declining-church-attending, microwave-warmed McDonald's Mom's apple pie-ing land...
...times Dawkins's book borders on absurdity. Since genes are selfish and so omnipotent, Dawkins queries, why don't they grab the reins and take complete charge over humans...
After so many quiet years, what got into the Indians? Some scholars believe they never did fully abandon their hopes of regaining lost land and privileges. In Land Grab (1972), John Upton Terrell argues that from the very first coming of the white man the Indians' primary urge has been "defense, a ceaseless struggle to save their homes, their resources, their lives." This view may exaggerate the constancy of the Indians' will during an era when they were displaced by a relentlessly expanding society. Yet that will has plainly stiffened. In Apologies to the Iroquois (1959), Edmund Wilson...
...seems to grab your hand and lead...
Anyway, next time you want to get in good with the professor, grab your sneakers and head for Hemenway. The guy may not be able to explain the stock market but he could give you a few pointers on that turn-around jumper from the top of the key. AFTER DAY ONE AT THE EASTERNS 1.Harvard 105pts. 2.Princeton 82pts. 3.Navy 67pts. 4.Dartmouth 63pts. 5.Yale 63pts...