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"The movement of American society toward reducing sex to animal-like conduct" is reversing itself, Amitai Etzioni said, and the new trend will create "a synthesis, a new middle" in sexual behavior.
The giants of biblical criticism who emerged in 19th century Germany basically believed in the Christian message but carried over from the Enlightenment the emphasis on the Bible as a human work. Their aim was to find the historical core of Scripture by confronting it with an entire range of...
Lippmann's distrust for ordinary people and events permeated his writing. The simplest matter was likely to set him pontificating about the need for a synthesis between Jeffersonian liberty and Hamiltonian authority, or half-whimsically going back to liberal first principles. And though such an attitude seems particularly silly for...
The Lasker Foundation also handed out $5,000 awards for basic research to four of the country's leading cancer investigators. Dr. Ludwik Gross of The Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital was cited for his discovery of animal leukemia viruses. Dr. Sol Spiegelman of Columbia University was honored for the...
If the "subtle" racism that prevailed here during the Pusey administration provided the dialectical thesis and black activists offered the corresponding antithesis, the Bok administration--true to form--sallied forth with an attempt at synthesis. After Harvard's discriminatory ways had been exposed, Bok told the NAACP, "much of our...