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...wrongs. The Moslems told one another that patience was "the key to Paradise" and "a gift that Allah gives only to those he loves." Patience, in short, was the core of religion in a world where life was hard, society was static and hope lay in the hereafter. Patience meant resignation-a necessary quality for tillers of the soil and fishers of the sea, whose control over what happened to them was marginal. In such a frustrating scheme of things, outbursts of personal rage must have been no small social problem. The Ship of Fools, a 15th century compilation...
This reasoning is an example of what philosophers call the fallacy of equivocation: what Shannon and Wiener, inventors of information theory, meant by "communication" is not what Moles has in mind. However, trying to apply a theory in new domains is fair game, so we proceed...
Economics, derived from a Greek word that meant simply "household management," has never moved too far from the kitchen, and America's housewives were ahead of the professionals in spotting the trend. In stores from New York to Los Angeles and from Houston to Detroit over the past six months, the price of bread has risen 2? a loaf, hamburger 10? a pound, children's shoes 50? a pair. Men are being charged 25? more for a haircut than they were in September, and their wives are paying from 50? to $1 more for a shampoo...
...Burpee Co.'s seed counter, pretty salesgirls showed off the new topper snapdragons, which now come in every shade from lavender to orange. Other new seeds for the season: Burpee's new two-tone Whirligig zinnias and a Yellow Nugget marigold (see color pages), a large bloomer meant to last from Memorial Day to after Labor Day. At Jackson & Perkins, people sentimentalized over last year's John F. Kennedy rose, craned to see the company's newest offerings-a red rose named Mexicana, whose petals turn to silver near the stem, and a bright new floribunda...
Furthermore, Brewster said, the corporation would not favor admitting women if it meant reducing the number of men in Yale College, and insisted that the addition of women would have to be underwritten by "sufficient funds to maintain the quality of the university...