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Could it be, Bindrim wondered, that what he calls a man's "tower of clothes" is not only a safeguard for his privacy, but also a self-imposed constraint to keep out people he fears? If sp, a man who disrobed physically might be bet ter able to disrobe emotionally...
Despite this safeguard, the new president of PBHA will have a freer hand than his predecessors to develop programs. There are potential dangers. A high-powered executive committee, for example, could eliminate a committee to which students devote only an afternoon a week. There is no reason to expect this sort of exclusiveness, however; officers in the past have been more concerned with a committee's practical goals than with the intensity of its efforts...
...dissemination of nuclear technology, about the limitation of weapons, even about ways of ending the war in Vietnam, often require classified information to do their work or, at least, have to be exposed to classified information in doing their work and cannot do it unless they are willing to safeguard what the government calls "security." Even if the character of everybody's classified research could be ascertained, drawing the line between the objectionable and the unobjectionable, or between what any reasonable man would consider objectionable and what some reasonable men might consider to be in the public interest, would require...
...sought to take its measure in advance. If the world at the beginning of the 21st century were to be as "intellectually unprepared" for change as it was in 1929, 1941 and 1947, write the authors, it would be "subjected to some very unpleasant surprises." Man cannot safeguard himself against the surprises of the future, but he can try to prepare for them by reducing what Wiener calls "the role of thoughtlessness." In that task, their book will help...
...scratch of a pen that grated Stalin could prove mortal to its author, and Ilya Ehrenburg set out to safeguard himself from an early, flowered grave. Survive he did, earning the epithet of panderer and opportunist from his detractors. Ehrenburg survived not only the Revolution (he published his first books of poems while the Czar was still on his throne) but all the turns and terrors of successive Soviet regimes...