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Animistic Universe. One of these truths concerns the duality of human response. A child's mother is usually perceived as benign and loving. But she may also be seen as arbitrary and punitive. In the tales, this harsher figure can be masked as a witch or wicked stepmother. The father, alternately protective and threatening, is usually cast in the role of giant or king. In these guises, the author believes, parents may be disliked and defeated without guilt or remorse...
...convinced of the necessity of conservation. Today he is actually co-sponsor of a bill prohibiting any dams in the Grand Canyon region. Is the story attempting to claim that Udall is inconsistent? Far from it. It simply outlines a change in philosophy. I would dare say that a harsher criticism could be leveled at a man who was unchanging, and blindly sticking to one position...
...West, at least, Johns Hopkins Professor of International Relations Robert Tucker's assessment in Commentary appears correct: the OPEC revolt represents "the latest manifestations of an egalitarianism which, if permitted to run its logical course, is likely to result first in chaos then in an international system far harsher than today's or even yesterday's system...
...past. It would be hard to find anyone more at home in such a variety of contemporary disciplines-economics, politics, the arts, popular culture. Yet Bell is not happy with the trends in any of them. Something precious has gone out of life, he feels. The deficiency makes people harsher, more inward, more aggrandizing. Bell yearns for a restoration of civitas: "The spontaneous willingness to obey the law, to respect the rights of others, to forgo the temptations of private enrichment at the expense of the public weal-in short, to honor the 'city' of which...
There is no one single reason why prisons have become so packed recently, but experts point to a number of factors: a skyrocketing crime rate, more efficient police departments, harsher sentences, tougher parole boards...