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...manage material from such diverse sources. His information from the humanities is handled well; the religious philosophers get rather murky treatment, while many scientists are plainly misinterpreted. When Wager says, "biology teaches us that existence and increase are the supreme goods of life," he could not be more completely incorrect. This is precisely the kind of value judgment that good science most vigorously eschews...
...incorrect to say that all the violence is inspired by Communist or Cuban agents, Gonzalez said. Student political violence is a tradition at a university which since 1908 has always been in opposition to the governments of Venezuela...
...manner in which they have been advanced. Students who have been tutoring students in the Negro districts of Boston, registering voters, or working in similar areas would not join a service corps. And it is this type of politically involved student who goes to NSA conferences. But Shaul is incorrect to equate the political activists with other students and adults who spend time in social service work. Students who participate in the Phillips Brooks House public service projects would most likely be very excited by the service corps...
...language of the King James version was pruned away to make easier reading-a feat comparable to "taking apart Westminster Abbey to make Disneyland out of the fragments." Similarly, the Third Edition of Webster's International Dictionary discarded the label "erroneous" for misuse of a word, sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter on a TV program. Writes Macdonald: "It is felt that it is snobbish to insist on making discriminations-the very word has acquired a Jim Crow flavor...
...been worrying about"; says the CIAman cleverly, "it looks as though we've really got something." There is even room to mention a minor Russian official in Washington named Georgi Bolshakov, who is duped by his own bosses so that he can pass along to Kennedy the incorrect information that "those things" are strictly defensive...