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...most of the present-day prophets disappoint Thompson. Architect Paolo Soleri, with his beehive city projects aimed at accommodating architecture with ecology, and Educator Ivan Illich, with his hope of "deschooling" society, turn out to be looking backward. Reacting to a world too full of growth, they strive to return to simpler, medieval values. (Nevertheless, both Illich and Soleri represent something Thompson admires: the achievement of authority unaccompanied by institutional power.) The Club of Rome, on the other hand, looks forward to a world of no growth. But Thompson dismisses its recommendations too because he distrusts rule by any "technocratic...
Otten insisted that blanket rules tabooing injection of the first person in news analyses are too dogmatic. "The term 'perfect objectivity' is a snare and a delusion. Instead we must strive for fairness," he says...
...announcement last week of the $20,000 Eliot House gift--earmarked for a new program in the performing and creative arts--encouraged freshmen to apply to Eliot House. The masters said the gift gave Eliot an unfair advantage as the Houses strive to make all the Houses equally attractive to freshman applicants...
PERHAPS the environment in Sleeper is altogether too comfortable for Allen. There are jokes that he doesn't have to strive for. Often the best lines come from the old Allen, unbound by the plot, as when, identifying relics of the 1970s for the doctors, he explains the Playboy pin-up models never existed, but were inflated like balloons...
...help men become "conscious collaborators" in their evolution, Aurobindo taught his own humanistic version of yoga. While traditional yoga disciples strive to free the spirit from the body's domination, Aurobindo sought to transform earthly existence by bringing the divine down into it. Aurobindo's vision of a "supramental" human consciousness has often been compared to Teilhard de Chardin's hopes for an ever-increasing spiritualization of man and his world. "I saw them cross the twilight of an age," Aurobindo wrote in his 24,000-line epic poem Savitri, "the sun-eyed children of a marvelous...