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This reaction is much like the antics of those monkeys that hear, see, and speak no evil. By avoiding a problem, they seem to think it will disappear. Even accepting these colleges' narrow belief that only communists advocate recognition of China, the refusal to argue the issue is inexcusable. When it is no longer possible to present both sides of a topic, there is not climate of fear, but an actual freezing of thought...
...Christian is to believe that Christianity "possesses a monopoly of the Divine Light . . . then I am not entitled to call myself a Christian." Since finishing the Study, Toynbee has expressed himself even more strongly. Said he: "If all the religions in the world were to disappear except Christianity and Buddhism, I would not be able to make a choice between them. In this part of the world, of course, it would be more convenient to keep Christianity, but convenience aside, there would be no choice between them...
...American Negro, says Zoologist Curt Stern of the University of California in Scientific American, is doomed to disappear through racial diffusion. As a group of mankind, American Negroes are relatively new. They have existed for only 300 years, and are already notably mixed. Dr. Stern figures from their blood-group makeup that about two-thirds of their genetic material (heredity) comes from Africa, about one-third from Europe. More than 78% of American Negroes have some non-African genes; by 1980 there will be hardly a single U.S. Negro of pure African descent...
...Kelly) catches fire from a local lass (Cyd Charisse), but when this arson is revealed to the parson, he raises a difficulty. Brigadoon and everyone in it lie under an enchantment. Only one day out of every hundred years can they spend on earth. At midnight the town will disappear until a morning in the year 2054. If the lover stays, he will disappear too. The Americans go sadly back to New York, but after a couple of weeks at the modern pace, Kelly decides that one day every century is enough, and catches a fast plane back to fairyland...
...flask, causing one veteran trader to complain that "the market's just plain crazy." But there was a reason: producers were not running their mines full tilt to take care of big new demands for the metal (e.g., in the atomic field) for fear that the demand would disappear while they were spending a lot of money expanding. But when the Administration recently guaranteed the producers a fixed market over 3½ years for 200,000 flasks at $225, the mines began stepping up output in a hurry (e.g., New India Mining & Chemical, biggest U.S. producer...