Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large hospital and finally renounces all her dignity. Lea becomes "It" in a series of progressively debasing games devised by Alvise. She searches frantically for a hidden ring, plays the roles of comic-book characters and chases Alvise blindfolded as he forces her to tumble into a cesspool. "You know I'll never make love to you," Alvise taunts her, but Lea's passion is so great that her nephew seduces her into the ultimate game-Mercy Killing. She cleans and grooms him carefully, knots his tie and, as Alvise watches smilingly, injects him with a fatal dose...
Jesuit Theologian Paul Curtin of Boston College asserts that there is no authority for man's spiritual proselytizing outside the earth. "The only theology I know or can know," says Curtin, "is that of a revealed God in relationship to the children of Adam. If there are beings on another planet, then they must be the object of another Providence. They are not the children of Adam, and so they are not a part of our salvation history, which is that of a fallen and redeemed race...
...love? I don't even know...
HISTORY is happening to us now, and so we assume that someone is making it happen. But the shape of events--at Harvard and often in the world as well--suggest that if some people are making our history, they don't know what they are doing. And right now knowing what you are doing, and knowing what you--and others--have done, must no longer be the special problems of epistemologists and academic historians. For without the achievement of that kind of knowledge, the decision about what is to be done will be made in blindness and terror, with...
Aside from the arrogance of men who claim to know what is and is not a part of the spirit of a university, and also seem convinced that they know in advance what I will do in a future which may never arrive, I am disturbed by the seriously distorted view of radical politics which seems to me to form the basis of such claims and innuendoes. The view in question is by no means a new one, and in fact it has its origins not among liberals, but among such establishment radicals as Irving Howe (for instance, in Howe...