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...that centers on "a personal appropriation of one's own rational self-consciousness." Lonergan's viewpoint is inherited from Aristotle and Aquinas, but has been expanded by Kant and Freud. Using a vocabulary uniquely his own, he has written a general field theory of the mind-the origin and nature of human insight, how it relates to its various forms of expression, whether in the formulas of the physicist, the word pictures of the poet, the concepts of the philosopher. Insight, say Lonergan's followers, spells out the possibility of a transcultural philosophy that would allow thinkers...
Dean Griswold traces the origin of the gap between white and Negro in the United States to the English common law of chattels, which governed the possession of slaves in the American colonies. The law of chattels regarded slaves as no different from any other form of property, having neither personality, nor rights against their owners...
Romer, an authority on vertebrate animals, was director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1946-61. His research has centered on the amphibians and reptiles of the Permian period (220-225 million years ago). His study of pelycosaurs has cast light on the remote origin of mammals. Two of his works, "The Vertebrate Body" and "Vertebrate Paleontology" have become standard texts in many universities...
...prevailing intake of vitamin D does no harm. But in unpredictable cases, any excess over normal requirements causes unnatural calcium deposition in the fetus: its bones, especially the base of the skull, grow unusually dense, and chalky deposits narrow the aorta. Sometimes the aorta is narrowed around the origin of the renal arteries so that the kidneys are starved of blood and the affected baby suffers from extremely high blood pressure...
Burke said yesterday that the agency has had four managers since its origin. All of them found that their work did not produce a profitable operation, he said, since it was "enormously time-consuming to make arrangements between customers and entertainers." The 10 per cent commission, which is a "standard agent's fee," was simply not enough to cover the expenses, he explained...