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...article on faith and the scientist [June 29]: there is an unwarranted assumption that science deals in faithless fact and that religion traffics in factless faith. The quote from Dr. Van Ness sums it up perfectly: "Any time religious beliefs come into conflict with the things we learn about the world, we must modify the beliefs." Any number of the scientific concepts we accept today may be simply convenient schemata that impose order upon the experiences we have collected so far. They may have little or no relation to "reality." The suspicion has been growing among many scholars during...
Those weeks our newsstand sales go up, even though we might have someone else-a movie star or a novelist-on the cover. Other weeks it is the cover that seems to be the draw. And often, of course, cover subject, newsi-ness and public interest happily coincide. Such was the case with the recent Billie Sol Estes cover. The newsstand interest in this spectacular Texas bankrupt, added to the rising number of regular TIME subscribers, combined to make that issue our alltime leader in circulation, with 2,784,000 copies...
Thank you kindly for your attention to my protest against adding ness to so many words in the English language [May n]. TIME truly has feathered its own ness...
...tunnel project, Davidson admits, is a "Loch Ness monster of a scheme." But many of the incredible difficulties which the men who preceeded him in the effort faced with little success have already been overcome by Davidson and his Channel Tunnel Study Group. Judging at least from Davidson's earlier works, an underwater link between Europe and the British Isles seems inevitable. The English Channel, as Davidson says, "is an outdated stretch of water...
...recent novel speaks of drinkingness (more pleasurable than drunkenness). One Texas preacher is currently using everything from thereness and scatteredness to gatheredness-which suggests that he owes a debt to togetherness, used in the 1920s by Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead long before Madison Avenue took it over. Another early ness-builder was Mr. Justice Holmes, who defended his decisions by saying: "I do accept a rough equation between isness and oughtness." Teacher Foote has spotted the malpractice as far back as a rare 16th century book that describes Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides as having cavern-nesse...