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...fronts, yesterday was quiet. An SDS rally to support a boycott of GM drew about 50 people to the steps of Mem Church. A man in Sao Paolo, Brazil, began serving a prison term for biting his pet dog to death. The national government of Tannu Tuva dissolved itself sine die. The City Fathers of Kabul, Afghanistan, appropriated 500 coppers to build two cupolas with minarets. And at his dacha in the Ukraine, Nikita S. Krushchev passed a quiet afternoon, cursing his luck...
...myth," Roszak means "that collectively created thing which crystallizes the great, central values of a culture." As the sine qua non of all scientific knowledge, objective consciousness is the foundation upon which the technocracy has built its citadel. Even in our most private lives, we pay homage to that citadel all the time...
...where undergraduate education is perhaps the best in the country, I often find myself thinking that I learn more from one of the communal nightly "bull sessions" than I do from a week of classes. For a rewarding college experience in general, students who can offer something else are sine...
Whatever deconversion Mather permits will make all the Houses that much more livable--and will allow Senior tutors, their staffs, and Faculty associates to spend more times with each student, to develop those personal relations which are the sine qua non of the House system...
There are infinite gradations on the hippie scale--from the down-and-out hip-bo to the Harvard student in flowered shirt to the young executive who likes to turn on. The Mayor finds it convenient to maintain that the hip-bo's are the sine qua non of the hippie movement. But in the treacly web of hippie contact and connection, everyone has communication with everyone and strict dependence...