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One viewer of "E. T." wrote this summer, in a letter to The New York Times, that the success of a movie with persistent associations to the life of Jesus Christ just goes to show that even in this high-powered age, the greatest story ever told still commands enormous...
Of course there is nothing wrong with making movies--or books or paintings, for that matter--that depend on the irrational rather than the rational; to disparage that would be to blunder into an ageless debate over the merits of faith versus reason--a debate that shows no signs of...
But at the same time, Fraser recognizes that unions cannot just stand still and hope that their problems will go away. While working to safeguard the benefits of his members, Fraser is willing to accept change. Says he: "Automation and robots are an inevitable trend. You can't resist...
The majority of herpes sufferers are not destroyed or unalterably changed by their condition. Panic only leads to stress, and stress is a major contributor to recurrences. We favor rational education and an expanded research effort as the best ways to fight herpes.
Ionesco believes that the irrational is man's intuitive form of vision. Everything that claims to be rational and realistic is a distortion of that vision, a shield raised against the absurdity of existence.