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...alternative to the general dreariness of the commercial networks. If the Reagan budget cuts go through and new money is not found, the system will begin to shrink, and eventually could disappear. Warns WGBH's general manager Henry Becton: "In two years public television could be a pale shadow of what it was-with nothing to replace it." -By Gerald Clarke...
...Christian hell, down through the depths of skepticism, Deism, atheism, and finally "nihilism," which Kung defines as the denial of all reality. He burns to prove that it is "rational" to believe in an ultimate reality, and that this reality must be the Christian God. Kung lives in the shadow of Thomas Aquinas, who believed that science and religion did not clash because some things could be proved by science, while others simply had to be believed through faith. Kung revises Aquinas, redrawing the boundary between faith and reason. He declares, once and for all, that it is "rational...
...regards the Vietnamese occupation as Soviet expansionism by proxy, and has sought to drum up international support for the Khmer Rouge. It has successfully persuaded the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Na tions (ASEAN) and other anti-Soviet countries to back the Khmer Rouge and its shadow government, called Democratic Kampuchea in the United Nations. The U.S. and other Western countries have gone along, but with extreme distaste. The reason: Democratic Kampuchea is the outgrowth of Pol Pot's four-year reign of terror, in which as many as 3 mil lion Cambodians are believed...
Shuttle bus drivers and University officials this week entered the late rounds of a shadow-boxing match begun two weeks ago when some of the drivers threatened to strike for revisions in the new shuttle bus schedule and increased wages...
...underdog literature--a result, popular psychology goes--of the pain and trauma of the Civil War--a regional bad childhood which now, over one hundred years later, still finds expression in the airless vaults of literature. There's Thomas Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy and that huge shadow which is Faulkner. Southern Writers are supposed to be totems of our national pain, and to question their existence as a group becomes something of a sacriligious act. We need this "South" for reasons which are deeply buried. We need the South with its chivalry and shitkickers, because...