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Goldwater, you see, is a rather tall order for almost any voter to accept. To rebut rather sketchily, there is another side to all these Constitutional questions: Senator Goldwater apparently places little stock in the "necessary and proper" and "general welfare" clauses. The wisdom of the ages did not stop accumulating in 1789, and if a nation is to live fruitfully in a changing world, its Constitution must be a reasonably flexible document, laying down a framework for dealing with problems beyond the foresight of the drafters. Why does the Constitution not mention agriculture or education? Because the twentieth century...
What on earth do they mean by it all? Their appeals and demands are fuzzy, their exhortations mixed up with one another. Charity, while right and proper, is not sufficient excuse to open the floodgates of the Treasury; it must be justified by the national interest. But self-interest alone seems too harsh; it must be mellowed by the sweeter talk of conscience. In all this taradiddle there is no mention of the actual political, social, and economic settings that must absorb the generosity of the West...
Howard Mumford Jones, first permanent occupant of the chair, criticized the "pessimism and parochialism" of American scholarship, which falls to provide "the proper fusion of national and international ideas." Students of the national culture often fall in two respects: they do not understand the United States' European background fully; and they tend to bypass Latin American contributions to literature...
Sciences, like animals, can reproduce when placed together under the proper circumstances. In Dayton, at a symposium sponsored by the Air Force, an infant science born of biology and electronics has made its appearance. Its name: bionics. Its aim: to study living creatures in hope of gaining knowledge to improve man-made mechanisms...
...this patchy, fast-paced comic novel, Irish-Scottish Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community...