Word: rousseau
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...Beset as we are so suddenly with mountains of pornographic trash and with well-meaning arguments for doing away with it all, it is easy to forget the crimes against political freedom, science and the arts that have been committed in the name of morality. Books by Aristophanes, Defoe, Rousseau and Voltaire have been seized by U.S. customs, and Hemingway, Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis were once banned in Boston. Such past errors certainly do not constitute a conclusive argument against censorship, but they do underline one fact: no apparatus of censorship has ever been devised, or probably can be devised...
...obvious. Women-and Radcliffe women are no exception-have long been trained as accessories of men. They have been warped and molded, in body and in mind, and have rarely been able to know other women or themselves as individuals. "The whole education of women" must no longer, as Rousseau put it, "be relative to men." By giving woman a place to meet, to work and be together, away from the influences of a male-dominated society, the Women's Center at 888 Memorial Drive gives women a chance to get out from under the debilitating weight of a sexist...
...readily recall that before the year was out, John repudiated the document and was released from its observance by the Pope. John died the following year, 1216, and the agreement was reissued by Henry III.) Social contract theory was further developed by John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson, who enshrined it in the American Declaration of Independence...
Clinging Salts. Rousseau, 29, was one of the skeptics. But it was not until he read a recent article about polywater in the Soviet scientific journal Khimiya i Zhizń (Chemistry and Life) that he got the idea for his simple test...
Vodka Glass. How could so skilled a chemist have allowed sweat to contaminate his equipment? The explanation is simple, says Purdue University Chemist Robert Davis, who collaborated with Rousseau and confirmed his conclusions with other analytic techniques. Every person is surrounded by an invisible cloud of organic salts that have evaporated from the skin and been expelled from the lungs; these tiny pollutants may well be absorbed by the porous glass of laboratory beakers and flasks. Thus polywater-which is made by letting steam condense inside hair-thin glass tubes-could pick up impurities even in the hands...