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Obvious Leader. What transformed Hayakawa was his gut reaction to one of the worst campus situations in U.S. history. By last November, S.F. State had run through six presidents in seven years. A student strike had been called by the supermilitant Black Students Union to enforce ten "nonnegotiable" demands. Among them: an autonomous black studies department, full professor rank for the department head (who had been on the faculty less than one year), the firing of a white administrator and admission of all black students who applied for the next year. The militants enforced the strike with violent terrorist tactics...
From this stupendously optimistic point of view, immortality is not a fringe benefit but a gut issue. Death, says Harrington, is an unacceptable imposition on the human race. Having already invoked science to support his faith, Harrington lays hands on human irrationality and violence for the same purpose. Fear of extinction, he suggests, combined with the frustrated lust for eternal life, underlies the disturbed behavior that threatens humanity with madness and self-destruction. Had men only "world enough and time," he argues, they could explore the endless varieties of love, work and play. The resulting fulfilled, relaxed race would...
...specific plans about tutorials or course requirements have been discussed. "It's more of a gut reaction," Bonder said. He added that he did not foresee an enactment of the proposal until the Fall...
surfacing off-campus are gut-wrenching questions and fresh declarations blooming in the clear light of hindsight...
...leaps forth from Interior Landscape, twisting savagely sidewise, up and around. Only the deliberately faded grays and greens, and the firm blue square in the middle, keep the painting from dissolving into a chaos of raw emotion. Still, any really good abstract painting, Helen argues, "plays on your emotional gut. It gets to you, and many people would just as soon leave that dimension alone. I think, in a way, a painting is a flat head-on confrontation, the same kind of thing that happens when you go to a concert and either you fall asleep or else...