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...make them, and how to muster them to repel an invading virus. But why, having once started, does it not keep on manufacturing them rather than wait for a new invasion? Neither Dr. Uhr nor any other immunologist can be certain, but there seems to be a feedback mechanism whereby, once the blood is sated with antibody, it yells "Enough!," and the antibody factory shuts down...
Prosperity is a major factor-and the leisure that prosperity has brought on a scale unknown to any other culture in the history of mankind. And once the trend began, it has been augmented by feedback from all the institutions that serve society. The universities have been reaching out more and more into the communities around them, staging lectures, recitals, plays and debates to which the public is invited. The foundations are handing out more and more money for cultural causes-an estimated $50 million this year. In 1964, for instance, the Rockefeller Foundation made grants to seven symphony orchestras...
There was plenty of feedback, particularly from Communist leaders outside Russia. They should be accustomed to the Communist way of changing rulers, but they reacted with puzzlement, anger, even outrage. The fact was ironic, for in large measure Khrushchev had been felled because his policies had lately splintered the Communist movement, and his removal was obviously designed to help reunite the comrades. But for the present, at least, international Communism seemed even more badly split than before, and just as cockily independent of Moscow. The relative national autonomy won by the various parties during the Khrushchev era could probably never...
...there now are in the area of Behavioral Science we would hope would be carried over into the new Program. And there are certain other rather special possibilities in course offerings that seem rather obvious: we think particularly of the value of a course on cybernetics, information theory, feedback and control, and computers, which might be particularly attractive to concentrators in the Natural Sciences...
...feedback got so intense at Yale that law students decided to reinvite Wallace. "Offensive and unwise," said Kingman Brewster, but nevertheless "Yale will not stand in the way." Free speech, it seems, goes for the bad guys as well as the good guys...