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ARDREY, as we have seen, replaces the modern concept that all human behavior is environment-determined, by his territoriality and dominance drives. If, however, we grant that man is derived from a predatory stock of vicious man-apes, and that the one criterion of his culture since has been the ever developing weapon, then we must abandon the view that man is innately good. Instead of seeing civilization as a corrupting force, it must be, if anything, a force that keeps man's savage predatory nature in check...
...advertisement charged that HUAC's activities "threaten democracy" by "introducing the alien concept of a political test into our public life." The Committee also impedes integration "by equating the struggle for civil rights with subversion" and encourages "the political extremists among us who stand for antidemocratic means and ends," the advertisement said...
...Look for a more effective program for cracking down on drunken drivers. Expect a surge of public sentiment against lawyers who get fat on fees derived from freeing such criminals through tricky legal maneuvers. There are a great many people in this country who still believe in the Biblical concept of morality...
Nelson A. Rockefeller urged last night that the U.S. help to develop a confederation of free world nations. In the last of the Godkin lectures, the New York Governor suggested that the American concept of the "federal " could create a "secure structure of international order...
...concept is now popular that the rabbi's central duty is to be a personal guide and counselor to the troubled individuals of the congregation," writes Rabbi Solomon Freehof in the recently published Israel Bettan Memorial Volume, a collection of essays dedicated to a former professor of Hebrew Union College. But this new interest in solving personal problems, says Dr. Freehof, a leader of U.S. Reform Judaism, costs rabbis time that they might spend better in preaching...