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...SESPA demonstration seems to be an effort to stir the Union of Concerned Scientists into action," Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at M.I.T., said yesterday. "I'm sympathetic to the demonstration; it's a good idea," he added...
Cranston and Saxbe decided to work quietly and concentrate on step-by-step changes the would stir scant controversy. They enlisted the help of Hughes, a former Governor who felt helpless as a Senator ("You have no command. You have to do what other people decide at their times"), and Schweiker, who had served eight years in the House and was struck by how much more slowly the Senate moved...
...house the soul of man in an epoch to come. That will be the labor of many brains and many hands, yet the spirit of man is not many but one, and its inner sonorities are a golden lyre which can cause the very stones to stir at the touch of Amphion, son of Zeus. For we are all sons of Zeus in that we are all created to be creators...
...Critic Irving Howe, the book is "a farrago of blunders, distortions, vulgarities and plain nonsense," and its author is guilty of "historical reductionism," "crude simplification," "middleclass parochialism," "sexual monism," "methodological sloppiness," "arrogant ultimatism" and "comic ignorance." Howe's attack seemed certain to stir up an unholy war between the sexes. For it was directed against both the bible and the high priestess of the Women's Liberation movement: Sexual Politics and its author, Kate Millett...
Ramsey's warning was not likely to stir South Africa's three Dutch Reformed churches, whose theology is often cited as a justification for apartheid. But Anglicans, who form the third largest Protestant group in the nation (after the Dutch Reformed churches and Methodists), were not likely to disagree with him. The Church of the Province of South Africa, an autonomous church within the Canterbury Communion, counts some 1,000,000 members, of whom 75% are not white by official South African definition...