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...much for the three charges directed to the official drug researches of the Center for Research in Personality. In addition there have been many rumors and clandestine reports of illicit uses of psilocybin. The sources of these rumors are curiously elusive; the people who bear them swear to their truth, but fail to present the least evidence to support them. Until such evidence is found, we will ignore the rumors...
...Will you swear on this sacred issue of Daedalus that your testimony will be the whole truth...
...also swear on the New Leader, Commentary, Dissent, Encounter, the Partisan Review, the Progressive, and lately, the Saturday Evening Post...
...scholarship, the new Torah has something to antagonize everybody. Singers of spirituals will note with dismay that the Israelites crossed the Sea of Reeds rather than the Red Sea. Moralists may be chagrined at the retranslation of the Third Commandment, which now reads, ''You shall not swear falsely by the name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not clear one who swears falsely by His name"-a dictum against perjury but not profanity. From increased knowledge of ancient Hebrew, the scholars translated the Hebrew nefesh to mean "the man himself" rather than his soul-since...
...Faculty meeting, the basis for discussion was commentary from Pusey and Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, on the fact that applicants for government loans under the National Defense Education Act will no longer have to disclaim belief in any subversive organization. The NDEA program still asks that students swear they have never been members of a subversive organization, but Howe explained that this request is not as overbearing as if sounds...