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...self-aggrandizement and power which guided the nation at that hour are attacked by the Crimson as they reappear today as "the American Century." Rather than the use of the "white man's burden" and "bringing salvation to the heathen" as mere window-dressing for economic and territorial conquest, the Crimson accepts them today only if they signify understanding guidance for undeveloped nations directed towards their independence and self-rule. Another 20 years passed, and the Crimson watched Woodrow Wilson evolve and put into practice his "new freedom", with its liberal reforms and its promise of social betterment. Today...
...Sidney Farber, a former president of the American Cancer Society and a co-chairman of the Senate Committee for the Conquest of Cancer, yesterday called Luria "a great scientist and a superb choice...
WEDNESDAY: Cortoz and Montezama Documentary special on the improbable conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish conquistadore Hernando Cortez, CH. 7, 8 p.m. Color...
...Dubos, unlike Roszak, is not possessed by a thesis. While deploring man's policy of conquest toward nature, he denies masochistic readers the tidy comfort of feeling that ecological abuses are the exclusive products of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and modern technology. Plato, he points out, testified to the deforestation of Greece. Far from reverencing life, men (Arcadian as well as Promethean) have always been inclined to operate on the theory: "If it moves, kill...
Most observers think the equality movement has weakened, though not demolished, the double standard, and reduced, though not ended, male preoccupation with virility. There is somewhat less boasting about sexual conquest. Jonathan, for one, asserts that "I respect my girl friend and our relationship enough not to tell everyone what we're doing." Anyway, reports recent Columbia Graduate Lou Dolinar, "Now that girls are living with their boy friends in the dorm, it's pretty hard to sit around with them and talk like a stud. Male bull sessions of sexual braggadocio have been replaced by coed bull sessions about...