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...fear-fear of black men, fear of crime, fear of disorder, fear even of differences-that allows repression to flourish, those who succumb to their fears are as responsible as those who make political use of them. And in the end both will suffer equally. 'For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.'" Richard Harris, it seems, would add to this list of fears men's fears of making decisions. For the Senate, the Carswell episode was a trauma in decision making. Senators fear the absence of politics. They fear a situation in which their decision...
...also opened new lines of communication within universities. For the first time in years, students, faculty and administrators agreed on a major issue. Formalized by new devices like campus ombudsmen and rumor-control centers, the new intimacy strengthened many an institution. LAW-AND-ORDER. The bombers and arsonists have sown genuine fear among students, who generally despise violence as much as anyone else. At the same time, most campuses have promulgated tough rules against unpeaceful dissenters. They have beefed up their security forces and equipped them with sophisticated electronic equipment to frustrate intruders and identify the hitherto anonymous rock thrower...
...story-and no film-better reveals Lawrence's moral absolutism than The Virgin and the Gypsy. Between its narrow boundaries is sown the seed of the Lawrentian canon-the familial conventions, the social hypocrisies, the annealing force of sex. The time is the '20s and the maiden is Yvette (Joanna Shimkus), who steps backward from French finishing school to her father's claustrophobic vicarage in northern England. The old authorities are reasserted, and Yvette is briefly cowed by her hectoring, rectoring father (Maurice Denham) and his priggish relatives. But there is a new spirit...
During the period that ended about 10,000 years ago with the discovery of agriculture, all of the seeds of civilization were sown. Out of the sharing and reciprocity demanded by the hunt, and out of the division of labor between male and female, arose the human family. The hunter's first symmetrical weapons were the antecedents of technology. By domesticating the dog for the chase, the hunter may have opened his eyes to the possibility of domesticating the prey. "Grinding and boiling may have been the necessary preconditions to the discovery of agriculture," write Anthropologists Sherwood L. Washburn...
...Memorial Church and called a three-day strike to protest the use of police. The group sent out a list of demands including dropping criminal charges against arrested demonstrators, keeping police off the campus, holding a binding referendum on ROTC, and restructuring the Corporation. SDS held it sown meeting at night and decided to form separate picket lines...