Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point is that our decision to make war comes as much from our perceptions as from the foreign situations. And who are we? A nation which ought to know, from our own inner life in Mississippi, Harlem, and Watts, that men do not have to be foreign agents to rebel; the revolution has its foundation in basic human misery, and that only the most desperate can embrace the hallucinatory terror of a life circumscribed by the hostile power of the state. Oglesby is appalled at our leaders' ability to manipulate politics, to deceive people, and coerce our allies...
...dispute between former city manager John J. Curry '19 and the present manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo went to the courts, the Council occupied itself with the routine tasks and its next major business: the proposed Inner Belt Expressway...
...nine councillors, joined by Cambridge's state representatives, met informally with traffic consultants hired by the city. The consultants presented their recommendation of an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt, the route that is favored by the state. This route cuts a wide path through Cambridge only several blocks east of Central Square...
...inner group exerts leadership in a low-key, almost casual way, seeks no euphoria of power. Its members commit themselves essentially because the chance to use their resources for the public good is so temptingly sensible...
...widespread experience of the "mystic light," such as that of a sober-minded, 19th century New York City businessman who was ecstatically converted to Christ after a dream in which he was suffused with light. Eliade shows how many otherwise disparate faiths offer similar experiences of the "inner light." Although defined and explained differently by various religions, these experiences all represent radical breaks with normal existence, taking man out of his ordinary life and projecting him "into a universe different in quality, an entirely different world, transcendent and holy." Beginning with a quotation from Goethe's Faust, another essay...