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Because of the age-old curiosity about life on Mars, the report also gives top priority to a Mariner orbital flight in 1971 and a Mariner-type craft that could orbit and land on the red planet by 1973. Mariner's large payload would enable it to carry instruments that might well detect life on Mars, if it exists...
...reconfirmation of the age-old Catholic stand that no one has the authority to deny the continuance of life is refreshing in the days made easy for everything else in America. And in the areas of our world where population in crease is an alarming concern to science it is reassuring to know that God alone gives the test of faith. Pope Paul stands with every Pope before him to remind the world that to live, no matter what the circumstances, brings honor and glory to the Creator. Perhaps if all Catholics were really Catholic, there would be less...
...struggle for liberalization, in essence, is just another manifestation of the age-old conflict between two opposed mentalities; to speak very broadly, those of the "Bureaucrat" and the "Intellectual." The Bureaucrat is stolid, excessively rationalistic and cautious about accepting change. This is no accident, as administrative structures tend to select precisely such men for their top posts, weeding out those who do not fit the pattern. The Bureaucrat is therefore most at home in a politically repressive system, in which his power is least questioned. The Intellectual, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with unfettered human expression in both...
...identification with militarism, license, revolt, sadism or criminality. Worse, the newscaster's carefully modulated vocal intonation of emotional neutrality carries a powerful subliminal, nonverbal "message" to impressionable minds about society's indifference to aggression and human suffering. This is an insidious attack on society's age-old weapon of restraint: collective moral indignation. The so-called "truth" is very difficult to communicate accurately. It must only be broadcast after careful evaluation in the light of total communications impact, and with full awareness of the "other and distorted messages" conveyed by carelessness or sensationalism regarding timing, balance, intonation...
...photography and its effects on culture and society--aesthetic questions, moral questions, political questions, philosophical questions. She alludes to the parable of Plato's cave and the way in which people experience the world through images rather than reality--"humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still revelling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth"--and argues that the nature of photographic images fundamentally changes the perception and experience of reality, changes the cave itself...