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...with the fundamental principle that a state may provide no financial support whatsoever to promote religion." Indeed, after the decision was announced, public school educators and teachers' unions charged that the decision could lead to the draining of funds from an already strapped state educational system. Said Matthew Stark, executive director of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, which had tried to overturn the statute: "The public school system has been the great socializer. It's one of the few common meeting grounds in America. The Supreme Court decision is threatening the very existence of that system...
...babies--Bergman's lens breaks down large group scenes into intimate individual conversations. Laced throughout magnificently decorated scenes and richly furnished rooms in the grandmother's house are snow-covered streets and the racing torrents of a stream; in contrast with such plushness, the mundane home settings seem stark, cold, and isolated...
Murdoch surrounds these stark questions with an abundance of local color. She provides a narrator (called N) and the English village of Ennistone (N's town), the site of an ancient hot spring where residents and tourists gather daily to bathe and socialize. Legend maintains that this spa has aphrodisiacal powers and was once associated with pagan rites of Venus. Vigilant congregations of Anglicans, Methodists, Catholics and Quakers keep watch on the "unholy restlessness" that periodically seizes Ennistone, a madness lately exemplified by reported sightings of flying saucers and the peculiar behavior of George McCaffrey. The town does...
...nonsense feminist whose convictions are firm without being strident. She is the mother of three boys, ages 20, 18 and 13, and her barrister husband tended them for stretches so that she could write. She possesses a startling imagination, and her way with words ranges from the stark to the lyrical...
Perhaps the greatest demand for scientists to realize the impact of their work comes from the anti-nuclear weapons campaign. For several years peace groups have tried to force Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, which receives $116 million a year in nuclear weapons-related contracts, to cease work on defense systems. With the recent growth of the anti-nuclear movement, Nuclear Free Cambridge has finally received well over the 3800 signatures needed to put a referendum on the November ballot to curtail or eliminate defense work in Cambridge. The signatures have not yet been verified, but they are expected to clear...