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...this country, to this point in history, the worker has opposed capitalism in his dreams--dreams of returning to a better, pastoral, life. Those dreams--made even more unreachable by the worsening economic crisis--will not vanish. The present always is too terrible--the worker must believe in either the past or the future. There are two possibilities: the American dream will stubbornly live on unimpeded in the face of social reality, in which case the existing system will somehow maintain itself; or the dream will recognize its fulfillment in the potential of the present, which will lead...
WHILE BROWN may not entertain his audience, he does manage to entertain a couple of useless ideas. He seems to feel that population growth, and poverty, and every other human affliction would vanish if we were all kinder to each other or more understanding; the world's social system, as he sees it, is basically sound. In fact, it is often the system itself which is the problem. Excessive population growth is not a metaphysical condition, it is a social sickness which has stricken countries ravaged by colonialism, or which ignore extreme internal inequalities. A landless laborer in Indonesia would...
Berlitz recites the familiar roll call of the triangle's victims-ranging from large ships like the 425-ft. freighter Marine Sulphur Queen, which disappeared off the Dry Tortugas in 1963, to small yachts, like the ocean racer Revonoc, which vanished off Florida in 1967. He also makes much of the famous "lost patrol" incident in December 1945, when five Navy torpedo bombers on a training flight, as well as a flying boat sent out to search for them, seemed to vanish into thin air. Heightening the sense of mystery, Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained...
...could almost say that there, hidden in the basement, away from any outside light, the world becomes reasonable. Inconsistencies vanish; the willingness to solve any problem logically renders all problems solvable. This is a very comforting atmosphere. It seems unfortunate that this room is used more to answer telephone queries about Harvard events than for the help and companionship it is able to offer...
...selections under this modest, unassuming topic. Ah, yes, Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics," St. Augustine's "Confessions," Machiavelli's, "The Prince," Kant's "Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone," Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy." As you read a few lines here, a few there, the printed words slowly vanish and are replaced by an image of yourself dressed in Renaissance robes, poring over an illuminated manuscript in an Erasmus-like tower. You lean over and look out the window at the little groups of women walking to market and children playing tag, a couple of lovers smiling...