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Dependency on the experts seemed tenable in the more innocent era when science was viewed as a virtually infallible cornucopia of social goodies. Americans long clung to Virgil's ancient advice: "Believe an expert." Today, however, Americans are no longer willing to acquiesce gratefully in either the discoveries of science or their application. The citizen has rediscovered that the best of experts will now and then launch an unsinkable Titanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A New Distrust of the Experts | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Clausen said he would give a Core course called "The Pastoral Tradition," if he receives the standing committee's approval. The course would cover Virgil, the Renaissance pastoral, Milton and Pope, and would be offered next spring...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Core Group Considers New Courses | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

Political Scientist Virgil Blum, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, considers the suit "the most serious challenge to the constitutional rights of American Catholics since the Nativist campaign of the 1850s." Even some liberal Catholics who disagree with their church's teaching on abortion are enraged by McRae. The Christian Action Council, a Protestant antiabortion lobby, is also upset. Significantly, the McRae alliance does not include the National Council of Churches, which is often part of church-state suits. Indeed, the N.C.C.'s theology commission pointedly declared this month that political activity on abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ecumenical War over Abortion | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Most of the answers were accurate However, Virgil hasn't suited up for a game since playing for the Roamin' Legions in the early...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Harvard's Vagabond Cagers | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Cornell and Columbia each placed two men on the first team. Tackle Victor Kaminski and punter Eric Blattman rose to eminence from Morningside Heights, while star running back Joe Holland and defensive back Virgil Cotton represented the Big Red from way up North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beling, Polillio All-Ivy | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

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