Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pater Noster becomes a magic spell chanted in Latin by the local healer, and always there are the endless "Ave Marias," with the accent heavily on the Ave, which are brought forth, like my old Irish Grandmother's frequent "Mother of God!" for any occasion and every reason, to curse or to praise or simply to signal the beginnings of the rosary. Endless rosaries are said, too, upon waking, before sleeping, and just for fun sitting around the fire with the neighbors. The film makes you realize that religion must have indeed been logical and practical to have survived...
GRAHAM K. ALLISON JR. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, had good reason to be angry last Monday night. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown's soporific advertisement for SALT II--beamed live and in color to the largest crowd in the K-School Forum's history--had suddenly gone haywire. An elaborate farce had turned into melodrama. While 20 of their comrades picketed outside, two protesters from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) had managed to smuggle themselves into the building, and one began screaming at Brown ten minutes into his speech. All those plans, all those arrangement... screwed...
...Part of the reason for it now is that there are four classes at Harvard that have been admitted on equal access so there are more women at Harvard than ever before, and in a sense women realize that even with equal access, all the problems are not solved," she added...
...core doesn't need pumps to cool it if we lose power for any reason. We do have an emergency water injection system, but the air itself surrounding it should be enough," Harling said...
...premature "peace is at hand" statement came to be made; the Christmas bombing; the turmoil caused by antiwar protesters in the U.S.; and the peace agreement. In the final week Kissinger writes of the near confrontation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over a crisis in Jordan; the reason for Nixon's famed "tilt" toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India-and a secret decision to give major aid to Peking if the Soviets threatened China. Throughout all three parts (which, of course represent only a fraction of the full, 1,521-page book), Kissinger offers unusual insights into...