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may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'A World Split Apart' | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

How has this unfavorable relation of forces come about? How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? Have there been fatal turns and losses of direction in its development? It does not seem so. The West kept advancing socially in accordance with its proclaimed intentions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'A World Split Apart' | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

What Solzhenitsyn seeks is a return to aspects of man's spiritual nature, or, as he says variously, "things higher, warmer and purer," "the Superior Spirit," or the "Supreme Complete Entity." He wants some higher principle which will help guide individuals to achieve their human potential. Western materialism which he...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Lost in the Translation | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Graduation hit the Bulldogs hard, as they lost five studs from last season's All-League squad. Mike Sullivan and Rick Angelone will do their best to fill Pagliaro's cleats, and once Yale finds a quarterback, Bob Krystiniak and All-Ivy end John Spagnola will be welcomed targets. Offensive...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Ivy Outlook: It's Brown and Yale and Pray for Hail | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

EXXON, the world's largest energy concern, suffered an 8% drop in profit last year, to $2.4 billion, but only because the weakness of the dollar increased the number of greenbacks that will be needed to pay off its foreign debts. In the first half of this year, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Seven Sisters Still Rule | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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