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...instinct is right for the longer run. His best reparation to the American people will be in redoubled effort on the stubborn problems of domestic policy and follow-through on his statesmanlike openings in foreign policy. The public, for its part, is already coming down off some of the more overblown views of the presidency, and that is why so many people are able to see considerable good coming from Watergate. The public has perceived that the President of the United States, even as other men, can be very good at some things and quite deficient in others...
Under the stubborn prodding of Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton and Copernicus' other intellectual heirs, questions of nature were thrust directly into the combative, public arena of empirical inquiry. For the first time, experiments became crucial. Theories were supported by close observation. The new scientific method, stressing reason and logic, was born. Individual scientists might still occasionally be wrong-sometimes outrageously so, as when Newton believed that the sun was inhabited. Yet it was the testing of such hypotheses, however farfetched, that caused a new intellectual excitement to sweep the Western world, a determination to explore, understand...
...effort. As equally good schools become more sexually balanced, more qualified men will choose to attend schools other than Harvard. As people worry less about the draft, male applications will fall off. Public sentiment is turning towards greater sexual equality, and the eventual retirement of Harvard's older, more stubborn administrators will no doubt ease the resistance to making Harvard...
...years ago, they set out to make another mammoth chronicle, this time of the entire De Gaulle era. "We were exasperated by the veil of veneration thrown over him," says De Sédouy. The two soon ran into a Gaullist resistance as stubborn and iron-willed as that of the General himself. De Gaulle's son Philippe refused to see them, telling friends that everything must be done to stop a project that could "only denigrate" his father. The state television network, ORTF, which holds a monopoly on World War II newsreels as well as postwar TV newsclips...
...backbone of the nation. In the ensuing 200 years, whenever Americans imagined their national virtue had strayed, they looked for it in the countryside--right up to Max Yasgur's farm. Not that these romances kept city people from squeezing farmers to death. Massive "agribusiness" and a few stubborn, independent souls are all the growing economy has left us of America's rural wellsprings of virtue...