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...small enough number of people to retain a clear sense of community. Mrs. Bunting would like the 'Cliffe to develop House-oriented activities such as drama groups, seminars, music organizations, and athletic teams; most of these require the support of a larger population than any of the dormitories possess...
...says that it is a crime to possess narcotics, and by jailing many of the 20,000 addicts arrested in the U.S. each year, it brands them as criminals. But most doctors and lawyers believe that drug addiction is not primarily a matter of wilful lawbreaking, agree that most cases result rather from some form of emotional disturbance, which is a medical condition. In a new book, Drug Addiction: Crime or Disease? (Indiana University; $5), a joint committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association suggests that the law, no less than the addict, may need overhauling...
...recognizes any common system of spiritual values, while its philosophers have tended to isolate the moral concept from its cultural context and have attempted to create an abstract subjective system of pure ethics. If this were all, we should be forced to conclude that modern Western society does not possess a civilization, but only a technological order resting on a moral vacuum...
According to Whitehead, human thought can be divided into the reason of Plato and the reason of Ulysses. The platonic thinker is a spectator all of the time, "a spinner of mathematical webs." Men of the Ulysses genre, on the other hand, possess the "wisdom of foxes...
...closing our ranks"); 2) the increased activity of the laity ("In the Presbyterian Church we have approximately half a million men united for service"); 3) the liturgical revival ("Protestant ministers are now . . . introducing orderliness, dignity and beauty to their services"); 4) an upsurge in intellectual vigor ("We possess a galaxy of theologians"); 5) new approaches to evangelism ("social, intellectual, devotional and industrial...