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...disturbing to people who have a stake in the big old cities. The automobile has in many ways rendered them obsolete. Along the highways circling them have arisen "ring cities," shopping centers, medical complexes and the rest, which provide the services that long gave the central city its raison d'etre...
Organ Recital by Lenora McCroskey. Works of Hindemith, Messiaen, Raison and Reubke. Memorial Church...
...quality of those delicate relationships and sensibilities that sustain a great university. Indeed, those who adopt militancy as a style of behavior within a university do so precisely because they, for whatever reasons, no longer comprehend the behavioral requisites of a great university. Thus for them a new raison d'etre becomes imperative: the logic of militant confrontation runs its civility-destroying course...
...group's raison d'etre remains the glorification of Charles Manson, now 40. So intense is their devotion that family members have written an eight-page "bible" in which they pledge fealty to Manson as "Father and God to his children." Mansonites have signed their names and placed swastikas, inscribed in blood, alongside some of them. The group's most avid conversations center on his prison activities and the hoped-for day of his release. Despite the glaringly obvious differences between the two cases, Manson nurses vague hopes that one day he might win a reversal similar...
Phillip Agee is one of the countless victims of the demise of the American political raison d'etre. He is also one of its assassins, Between 1960 and 1969 Agee served as a CIA officer in Latin America. He is a guilty man, and his book, CIA Diary, is a confession of his sins. Through five hundred and ninety-seven tedious pages, Agee chronicles his participation in bribery, extortion, bombing, spying, lying and torture, all in the service of the United States government. To make his expiation of guilt complete, Agee lists the names and occupations of over...