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...fuses. Unfortunately, Author Gravenson is not clear about which theory applies, although he insinuates both in a jarring epilogue in which he suddenly drops his comic mask and opts for some heavy social criticism. Reality has been edited out by the media pharisees, presumably leaving us to ponder the neo-Berkeleyan question: If no one saw what happened on TV, did anything really happen...
...worthwhile to ponder Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's comment, that when peace will come to the Middle East, she will forgive the Arabs for everything except the fact that they have forced Jews to kill in battle...
...they will be in history as another chapter in that oldest story, the collision of conscience with the state." That is not all. To those who read the Berrigans' writings and ponder the Berrigans' lives, the greatest fascination lies not with the collision between conscience and state, but rather that between the Berrigans' conscience and their...
...doing in the similar Chicago Seven conspiracy trial last year. Instead of nailing the defendants for contempt after the trial, as Hoffman did, Boldt acted at once. As for the defendants, if their appeals fail, they variously face from six months to a year in jail to ponder their courtroom manners...
Boren's Three Laws sum up NATAPROBU's philosophy: 1) When in charge, ponder; 2) When in trouble, delegate; and 3) When in doubt, mumble. The organization dedicates itself to "optimize the status quo by fostering adjustive adherence to procedural abstractions and rhetorical clearances." It also promotes "feasibility studies, reviews, surveys of plans, surveys of feasibility studies and surveys of reviews." NATAPROBU's gobbledygook letters and memos, sent irregularly to offending agencies, sound alarmingly real. Victims of the Internal Revenue Service's terrifying forms, for example, will immediately recognize such splendid Borenized phrases as "quanticized investment...