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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, a group of about 15 of us heard lectures lasting all day long. That night we were told that the end of the world was at hand, but before this, the Second Coming of Christ would occur. We were also told that the person who had brought these new truths to the world was Sun Myung Moon, a Korean. When I wanted to leave, I was told that Satan would try to pull me away from God because I had been chosen to build the kingdom of heaven. I felt that someone had placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Another Planet--and Back | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

However, most of the obstacles to readibility occur when Kearns haphazardly crowds the book with prevalent theories of political science. Machiavelli and de Tocqueville, those great legitimators of political science, are invoked and footnoted indiscriminately. Government professor Richard Neustadt's conjectures about presidential power, especially his discovery of the president's power to persuade, glut the book (the manuscript is dedicated to him). And in one oddly placed threepage section we get an introductory American government syllabus including statements on the growth of the imperial presidency, reduced prestige of the cabinet, decline of political parties, weakening of congressional leadership...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: A Bedtime Story | 6/4/1976 | See Source »

...extension will occur in three phases, the first of which will include ground excavation, the laying of pipes and resodding in the area between Plympton St. and Peabody Park, Francis Bergen, chief MDC engineer on the project, said yesterday...

Author: By Robert C. Gormley, | Title: Fence Along Charles River Prevents Pedestrian Traffic During Sewer Extension | 5/28/1976 | See Source »

...Review" page with great interest and some appreciation. I could hardly fail to discern the sense of offended egalitarianism and outraged activism that informs each of the four or five pieces written by your correspondents. Indeed it is a response to the important events and significant injustices that do occur in the community; the University Daily should not hesitate to publish such stories in an informed, responsible and if need be, dramatic fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Danes | 5/26/1976 | See Source »

...American or white. Is it really in the interests of the fight against racism to have official legal definitions of certain races or minority groups? Is it really wise to label and pigeonhole every American in order to know what special quotas each can fill? The final disaster will occur when the government starts issuing official heredity status cards to all citizens...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: Abolish Affirmative Action Quotas | 5/25/1976 | See Source »

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