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...repression, misery and frustration" is run by "very definite, identifiable persons, groups, classes and interests." Changing them, Marcuse implies, will take "preparation, organization, mobilization." By shunning the necessities of power, Reich merely "transfigures social and political radicalism" into the toothless utopianism of "moral rearmament." Greening, declares Marcuse, should forthwith be dismissed as a cop-out-the "Establishment version of the great rebellion," not the real...
...royal astrologer. Twenty years ago, a Buddhist monk told Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn that he would serve as Premier three times; he is currently in his third term. Thus when a family astrologer recommended a shift in living quarters to avoid inauspicious influences, Thanom and his family forthwith vacated the official residence for nearly a year...
...Japan had forthwith surrendered, how different would have been the shape and mood of the postwar world? The framers of the Franck Report argued that international control of nuclear armaments-such as later suggested in the Baruch Plan before the U.N. in 1946-would have been much easier to achieve, and the argument seems tenable. A humane precedent would have been set, and the U.S. would have established a standard of trustworthiness even among those who had no will to give it trust, just as later, with the Marshall Plan, it would earn a reputation for generosity even among...
...board of education to deal with overcrowding in the city's high schools. Someone suggested setting up a school that would use such cultural facilities as museums and libraries for classrooms. Since many of them are located on tree-shaded Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the project was forthwith dubbed the Parkway Program. To run it, the board hired John Bremer, a 42-year-old British educator who had been head of a community-controlled school district in New York...
...given day will in fact be continuing such discrimination unless he institutes a program of remedial action. What is there to negotiate about Harvard's failure to obey the law? It does not need Professor Cox's wit, knowledge, experience, and intelligence to tell students that the University will forthwith act in accordance with law and its professed ethical principles and will no longer discriminate in employment. Nor are Professor Cox and his talents required to agree with students to an arrangement whereby the effects of discrimination will be promptly eliminated...