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Behind the Johnsonian veil of secrecy, the selection process has already begun. Last week the President named Zbigniew Brzezinski, the astute, dynamic director of Columbia University's Research Institute on Communist Affairs since 1961, to a secondary but sensitive and influential post on State's Policy Planning Council. Polish-born and Canadian-reared, Brzezinski, a U.S. citizen since 1958, has been a persuasive advocate for the U.S. position in Viet Nam at widely publicized teach-ins. He is singularly attuned to the many nuances of modern Communism and has suggested bold departures in American policy to capitalize...
Already, he points out, automation has taken over in the bathroom-gadget department, with everything from electric toothbrushes and toothpicks to hair dryers and whirlpool agitators. More mechanized conveniences are surely coming. More important, he hopes that his report has finally lifted the "veil of embarrassment," and that the bathroom can be at last openly examined. "Until the bathroom is conceived of and produced as an entity," Kira maintains, "no significant progress can be made...
...just takes somebody out of the community, possibly to the tune of prerecorded hymns at the funeral parlor." John Courtney Murray suggests that man has lost touch with the transcendent dimension in the transition from a rural agricultural society to an urbanized, technological world. The effect has been to veil man from what he calls natural symbols?the seasonal pattern of growth?that in the past reminded men of their own finiteness. The question is, says Murray, "whether or not a contemporary industrial civilization can construct symbols that can help us understand...
...every hill battalioned trees March skyward on unmoving knees, And like a spider on a veil Climbs the moon. A nightingale, Lost in the trees against the sky, Loudly repeats its jewelled...
...they know they have studied Venus and not its veil? Dr. Barry Clark of the National Radio Observatory at Green Bank, W.Va., and Dr. Arkady Kuzmin of Moscow's Lebedev Institute of Physics explained that the thermal radiations they observed from Venus seemed to come from a solid surface. Moreover, Caltech's two big-dish antennas found the planet's actual diameter to be less than the 7,655-mile span that is observed optically. As a result, the astronomers assume that they have measured the planet itself and that the dense cloud covering is at least...