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...actually organize themselves effectively and gain influence remains an open question. The Student Lobby has been set back; the discouraging history of activists' attempts to form all-student government casts further doubt on the viability of these efforts. Still, the administrators who run the University now make only token, perfunctory efforts to consult the students whose lives they affect so deeply. The new groups raise hopes of democratizing the University, a goal so important that these initial steps should not be belittled...
...itself, a cause for changes to the present policy. Indeed, given the circumstances of housing, the various policy changes that have evolved can each be looked upon as necessary to effective development. I have no personal quarrel with the changes that have been made. But by the same token, I donot concede that what was done in the past was necessarily either ineffective or inappropriate. The policies, and their administration have flowed through successively logical, perhaps even necessary phases...
Even with belated U.N. attention, the reported measures taken and proposed are but a façade of token gestures. They ignore the basic driving force of population pressure' and the dissipative effects of ever-fragmenting "sovereignty...
...Israelis, clearly, have their own ideas about how to keep peace in the area. Last week's incursion was an unmistakable message to Damascus and Beirut that not even a token force of Palestinians is permissible in southern Lebanon. In the midst of last week's fighting, the Israeli government pointed out, Palestinian Katyusha rockets from across the border hit the Israeli towns of Safad and Qiryat Shemona-scene of a notorious fedayeen raid in 1974, in which 18 Israelis and three Palestinians died, and 15 people were wounded. If Washington cannot persuade the Israelis to back...
...earliest primitive artists: French cave-mural painters, mask-fashioners of Africa and Eskimo sculptors. The belief that a spirit exists in every living thing implies that in order to fashion an image one must first understand exactly what sort of spirit moves the subject. By the same token, art initially served a practical function: it was believed that by symbolically capturing prey (one captured a portion of its spirit by painting or sculpting it) the chances of success in the field were much greater. What may appear pure ignorance and superstition to Western man has produced some of the most...