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Like Adam, the Freshman was king of the beasts back in Eden. Or, at any rate, all came easy. But then, to eat of the fruit of knowledge--recent Biblical study indicates--he entered a new realm. No longer the chosen son, he was forced, as undergraduates say, "to sweat it." As a consequence, the real ethos of the Expulsion Complex is nostalgia; embellished reminiscences in which one's pre-Harvard splendor may become, in retrospect near dazzling...
...essays illumine one of Teilhard's central beliefs: evolution has not stopped, but has merely shifted its emphasis from the material to the spiritual. "Life is ceaseless discovery," he wrote. "Life is movement." First, from layers of earthly matter billions of years old, evolved the biosphere, the realm of living organisms. But with man, argued Teilhard, came also what he calls the noosphere (from the Greek word for mind: noos, pronounced no-os), the realm of thought and spirit...
...order to win over the Catholic peasantry and workers of Italy, said Togliatti, a new approach must be devised. "For this purpose," said Togliatti with heretical frankness, "the old atheist propaganda is of no use." Another fat target for Communist penetration is the realm of literature, art and science, where "the doors are wide open. In the capitalist world, in fact, such conditions are being created as to destroy the liberty of intellectual life. We must become the champions of intellectual liberty, of free artistic creation and of scientific progress...
...part of a sensational expose on British racketeering, London's tabloid Sunday Mirror last month thundered on its front page that Scotland Yard was investigating a homosexual relationship between a peer of the realm and a notorious London gangster. The Sunday Mirror and its weekday sister, the Daily Mirror, which repeated the story, named no names, describing the peer only as "a household word." But upon returning from a vacation, Lord Boothby, 64, onetime parliamentary private secretary to Winston Churchill, looked into the Mirrors and in effect screamed: That's me they're talking about...
Running Rebuttals. Although Schechner states his case with an almost belligerent finality, he is not at all averse to inviting an adversary to write a rebuttal that he runs directly after his own piece. The result, says Historian Jacques Barzun, "takes the theater out of the realm of mere grease paint and glamor and into that of ideas and feeling. Aeschylus and Shaw would applaud...