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That state government, especially the state in which Harvard resides, found it necessary and proper to divest from companies doing business in South Africa takes the campus debate out of the realm of the theoretical, and gives the arguments for the measure new weight Advocates of divestment should take the opportunity to put new pressure on Bok and the Corporation to justify their stance, or to change...
...Istanbul, Jerusalem and Tehran. He took his cameras among the Berbers of the High Atlas Mountains of northern Morocco. He joined the tribal migration of the Qashqai nomads across southern Iran. He wandered through the world of Islam as far as Malaya and Indonesia. His fascination with that realm enlivens The World of Allah (Houghton Mifflin; 280 pages; $35). From the film shot in his travels, Duncan has assembled a Pavlova of the highly photogenic landscapes and people of Islam. It is a warm and sympathetic vision of the family of man, Muslim branch. In the past, Duncan...
...indifference is, for you, sufficient reason to seek destiny, just as it was for Meursault to seek the guillotine. Forty years later you have a good identity. What does it matter if you are Christian? In these times only a Jew can move with such case in the realm of destiny and identity. But to accomplish this, one must choose--and you have made a choice. After a life of pleasant experiences, you arrived here, not some other place. It was a perfect choice. Perhaps as perfect as Meursault's in his indifferent assassin's cell...
...overcome the appeal of pacifism then pervasive in the Protestant churches. But 25 years later, writing on the Viet Nam War, Niebuhr addressed a new set of realities: "The problem of indiscriminate pacifism ... has given way to the problem of curbing pure force in the international realm...
...just as well that The Last Unicorn falls short of becoming as animation classic, because seeing such mundane, stereotypic images of unicorns only makes the beasts truly extinct. Such a Saturday-morning-cartoon style of animation cannot sustain a two-hour fantasy. Unicorns, after all, belong in the realm of the imagination...