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...convictions of Professor Urey are respected as scientific verity, democracy will suffer. "It is time that people realize I am but an amateur on these matters of law," Professor Urey states. "In science 'authority' is of no importance, Scientists accept the arguments of the famous and of the most unknown on their merits. We only ask the same treatment in other matters." Only if the moral opinions of specialists are intellectuals assume a rational role in politics...
...wings and tail of a great bird, and the pointed beard can be taken for a beak. The girdle is an ancient Middle Eastern symbol of power, worn by lion-strangling heroes in the bloody days of Assurnasirpal. The powerfully striding thighs are molded with an easy naturalism virtually unknown until the time of the Greeks, yet the cylindrical form and spellbound air of the entire figure are pre-Grecian. The boots are even odder than the horned helmet they counterpoint. Hittite sculptures sometimes have upturned toes, but never so exaggerated. A few experts guess that the boots...
...much distrust ... of what are said to be the reactionary and hypocritical views of professed Christians. There is great ignorance ... A recent inquiry among secondary-school children in Leeds showed that to many of them . . . 'words such as baptize, resurrection, ascension, testament, gospel, epistle . . . were often simply unknown...
...tedious patterns of thought, has persisted. The basic philosophy of the Soviet Union is utilitarian--a realistic novel is easiest to read, safest for propaganda, and therefore the best. The Soviet Union is afraid of thinking in contradiction to the regime. A James Joyce or Franz Kafka would be unknown in Russia today--he'd be too hard to read, besides being called "intellectual-bourgeois...
...give him ideas. Portraitist Healy (who died in 1894) recalled that Lincoln burst out laughing in the midst of one sitting, over a letter from a critical little girl. Lincoln asked Healy to pass on it: "As a painter, Mr. Healy, you should be a judge between this unknown correspondent and me. She complains of my ugliness. It is allowed to be ugly in this world, but not as ugly as I am. She wishes me to put on false whiskers, to hide my horrible lantern jaws. Will you paint me with false whiskers? No?" Despite the levity, Lincoln grew...