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...ln Drake, N. Dak., the five-member school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned...
...ln order to break the existing pattern of dependence and put an end to the erosion of competence, citizens will have to take the solution of their problems into their own hands. They will have to create their own 'communities of competence.' Only then will the productive capacities of modern capitalism, together with the scientific knowledge that now serves it, come to serve the interests of humanity instead. In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal 'growth' and 'awareness'-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture...
KEITH JARRETT: THE KÖLN CONCERT...
...ln medieval times, a doctor thought to be of help in "gettyng thy hed togethyr...
Councillor Walter, J. Sullivan one of the four independents who had watched the long struggle ln fascination, introduced a motion giving City Manager Corcoran a vote of confidence. It was passed by the same margin...