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...reported that Senator Goldwater said, "You can't pass a law that will make me like you or you like me." For the Senator's information, there already are such laws on the statute books of man: "And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Lev. 19:18) and "Love ye therefore the stranger" (Deut...
...Know Thyself." Boston Hematologist Dr. William Dameshek of the Tufts-New England Medical Center pioneered the concept of autoimmune disease. It has long been accepted dogma that in ordinary healthy immune reactions the body is using a birthright of every living creature. This is a set of biochemical sentries which raise an alarm when the body is invaded by a foreign substance, especially a protein, so that the system can make antibody to neutralize the invader. "Normally," says Dr. Dameshek, "the body has safeguards so it can recognize 'self as opposed to 'not-self,' and it will...
About four-fifths of the work on the chapel will be done by commercial contractors, who take a tolerant view of their moonlighting help. The volunteers themselves enjoy do-it-thyself chapel building -even though in some cases the motive is as much corporal as spiritual. "If we didn't believe in it," says Jay Johnson, an executive of Phillips Petroleum Co.. "we wouldn't be there. But besides, it's physically good for those who sit at a desk all day long...
This is the latest exposition of U.S. fiction's post-Socratic theorems: Find Thyself and Express Thyself. From Madison Avenue to Greenwich Village, from suburbia to Sunset Boulevard, the heroes of unnumbered novels are digging for their treasured psyches. In most instances, there is no treasure worth unearthing, all of which leads to another popular precept: Pity Thyself...
Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. The laureate of the wine-dark sea turns his sun-bedazzled eye on the islands of Corfu and Rhodes. To Durrell the Greek landscape lastingly utters one commandment: Know thyself...