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...when consensus will become an end in itself? Will we substitute consensus for challenge? Will a devotion to agreement keep us from those tasks that are disagreeable? Tonight, for myself, I turn back to the ancient Scriptures for the answer: "He that observeth the wind shall not sow and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap...
...liberal economists. "Do you mathematicians expect to be able to see from the main computing center," asks Ivan Malyshev, deputy chief of the Central Statistical Administration, "all our vast territory from the cold rocks of Murmansk to the flaming sun of Kolkhida in the Caucasus, to see how people sow and reap, how every chemical complex functions, how every machine operates? If something goes wrong in Khabarovsk, can you merely press a button and straighten things out? A strange Utopia. Society is not the sum of mathematical zeros and digits. It is a living, creative body...
...made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple, unimproved beech mast of the world." She also makes the cogent point that the well-publicized flights from England of Spies Bruno Pontecorvo, Burgess and McLean were deliberately contrived by Moscow to destroy U.S. confidence in England and sow disunity among the allies...
...first plateau I saw before me a wondrous space and some of those marvelous people at whom I dared not look too long for fear their Hollness should wither me. At the second plateau I sow glass doors right and left, and the beautiful holy music of Silence so overwhelmed me by its delight that I swooned. With the return of my mind that was shut off, I found myself at the third plateau. My Classmate, who was accompanying me and encouraging me with every footstep, whispered to me that First Class Citizens came in at this level to proceed...
...part psychoanalytical cliché, part spoof of psychoanalysis-and all claptrap. An ex-TV comic known as Bummy (Sam Levene) re-enacts his life from womb to gloom with total traumatic recall, including toilet training, sibling rivalry, and a recurring dream that he shares his bed with a white sow. Says Bummy's lawyer: "He's like a junkie on thought...