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HAVING always professed their faith in know-how, Americans have built empires of technology unparalleled in the world. The largest and for at least 25 years the most exciting of these has been the aerospace industry?the high-performance, high-speed realm of planes and missiles. Each year it has received barely conceivable billions from the national treasury, and each year its products seemed to transport Americans higher, faster and farther than ever before. After the U.S. Senate voted last week to shoot down the supersonic transport, which would have been the costliest commercial product in the nation's history...
...spirit of the purely ethical life. As a result, the play becomes something of a tirade against the venality of small-town existence rather than a broad examination of when, or whether, the democratic principle of majority rule may legitimately be abrogated by a single individual. Certainly, in the realm of ideas one would have to agree with Stockmann: "Before many can know something, one must know it." But in the realm of the state, one extremist, even in a righteous cause, may create a psychic disruption, a venomous division between man and man, that can prove as poisonous...
...their mystical level of existence. Sebastiao, for instance, the revolutionary "Black God," seeks to "revenge the death of Christ with the blood of the innocent" (he kills babies) and to reunite the entities of the earth and the sea. In Terra em Transe the mysticism shifts to the realm of political and economic power. The right-wing senator Diaz fulfills a Christian mission "to put hysterical traditions in order, through violence and the love of violence," while the populist governor Vierra professes a metaphysic of the masses ("the blood of the people is sacred!") which restrains him from benefiting them...
...bordering upon the realm of incredibility, that a nation that landed an army upon the sands of Normandy before the eyes of one of the finest armies in the world's history would now require the daily bombing of a small and insecure nation to remove its troops from Viet...
Harvard does have an outside chance for first place in the League if Yale beats Princeton today, but the Tigers have already disposed of Harvard and the Crimson defeated the Elis on Wednesday, 19-15. "It's not beyond the realm of possibility for Yale to win and Waterman [the Yale coach] in an all-out effort, is shuffling his lineup to give them every possible chance of an upset," Lee said...