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...present wave of bombings, kidnapings and cop-killings to an obsession with Che's emphasis on immediate, almost mindless action. Others note that it is difficult to determine whether Che is actually a moving force or merely a symbol of a mood. Nobel-prizewinning Biologist George Wald, a staunch pacifist who is one of Harvard's most popular teachers, maintains that for all its magic, Che's memory "is embalmed in a wonderful matrix of ignorance." London mail-order companies report that most orders for Che posters are now coming from teen-age girls who find...
...environmental politics. Sponsored by Maine's Edmund S. Muskie, the National Air Quality Standards Act of 1970 swept through the Senate without a single nay vote. The key target was automotive exhaust, the nation's chief air pollutant. But even Michigan's Robert Griffin, a staunch supporter of the auto industry, voiced only nominal protest and then voted for the bill. "Congratulations," said one Senator. "You've just gotten motherhood through...
Dougherty, who claims to have had a "great response from staunch conservatives," will not reveal his politics. His cause, however, cannot have been hurt by the appearance last week of a Spiro Agnew watch on the wrist of Mrs. Ethel Kennedy. "I asked her what the watch did," reported Senator Ted Kennedy, "and she told me, 'You wind it up, and it criticizes your brother...
People and Things. Some critics claim that existential theory differs only semantically from the Freudian, others that it is no more than a cupola added to the edifice that Freud built. In the opinion of Dr. Edith Jacobson, a New York analyst and a staunch Freudian, the whole concept of ego psychology (which deals chiefly with conscious processes) pays much the same respect to the human will that existentialists claim as their own creation...
...settled politically between Congress and the President. Meantime, ironies abound. Liberals who long dismissed Congress as retrograde and favored "power to the President," as Columbia Law Professor Tom Farer puts it, are now defending congressional wisdom. Longtime advocates of pragmatic interpretation of the Constitution are now becoming staunch strict constructionists...