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Thus Wilson faced the greatest crisis in his career as he returned from meetings with President Ford in Washington last week. Some British commentators have already begun composing his political obituary. Wrote London Sunday Times Columnist Ronald Butt: "Mr. Wilson has lost his raison d'e#233;tre as leader. The qualification that justified his other shortcomings was his success at being all things to all men. He has now lost that knack...
Virtually all film society screenings are open to the public; meetings are restricted to film society members. Admission is charged to pay for renting and showing of films. Because last year some Harvard film societies reneged after a fashion on their original raison d'etre by showing commercially available "entertaining" movies, some people outside the film societies have assumed that the organizations exist in order to make money off cinematographically trivial but popular movies. Of course, it is to be hoped that students enjoy film society presentations but entertainment is by no means the sole purpose of film socieites...
...ironic that merger has become so controversial an issue. When Radcliffe was founded almost a century ago, its primary raison d'etre was to provide for women the education Harvard College made available only...
...resolution. Observed one Lausanne participant, Theologian Kenneth Hamilton of the United Church of Canada: "[We and the World Council have] very different viewpoints, and I don't see how they can be reconciled. Basic issues make for basic clashes. Big protests are not fashionable now, but the whole raison d'etre of the congress reflects that the World Council is not giving the leadership it should on the central issue of expressing our faith. If there is no Gospel heart, there is no future for the church...
...histrionics. The contrast with last summer's Ervin-committee hearings was sharp. Speeches and statements were shorter; committee members are used to competing for time on the House floor with 434 colleagues, while Senators can afford a more leisurely pace. The TV cameras often appeared to be the raison d'etre of the Senate Watergate grillings; in the smaller, more intimate and somehow more professional Judiciary Committee room, they remained discreet onlookers...