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...absurd to think of words as being indecent and immoral," Carlin said last night. "Those are qualities that only people can possess. Words are merely symbols and, as such, cannot harm us," he added...

Author: By Mel M. Marinkovic, | Title: Court Decides Carlin Routine Not Fit for Air | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

...entering a resource-oriented era, in which the companies that control resources, or have the capital and technology to develop them, will prosper. Similarly, the nations that possess those resources will dominate-economically and politically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Thought for Food | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...letter did not alter the church's antipathy to interracial marriage or examine the theological implications of the new policy. For one thing, Mormons hold that all people possess an unremembered spirit existence before birth. Discussing black priesthood in 1951, the First Presidency stated that the church rejects original sin and believes that each individual is punished in earthly life for his own failings. This implies, the Presidency said then, that "the Negro is punished or allotted to a certain position on this earth ... because of his failure to achieve other stature in the spirit world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revelation: Revelation | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...whole process, he says, was that Harvard is unique, and therefore should neither copy other schools' programs, nor be copied. "We seriously doubted whether many schools have resources to staff and implement a plan like this," he says. Similarly, what sitinguishes the Core from other undergraduate curricula, which might possess similar structural categories, is the detailed set of guidelines that spell out the type and variety of courses in each of the Core areas...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The View From the Top | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...book will be the chapter dealing with the conflicts in education. As a college president during the Red-hunting years whose opposition to McCarthy gained him national prominence, and as one whose career eventually foundered on the Harvard Strike of 1969 Pusey's account of these years possess an intrinstic interest, less for what he actually says than for what we know of his role. Here again Pusey provides a general overview of the developments that took place, but for the first time a note of personal passion and conviction appears. The attitude of moral outrage which Pusey adopted during...

Author: By Margot A. Patterson, | Title: Pusey on Higher Education | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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