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...then used this to put pressure on individuals and groups of individuals and institutions-the scapegoats he had identified for society-to make their practices conform to his followers' view of how they should behave. The successes he achieved in this way would in turn serve to maintain and strengthen his political ascendancy. It was not a particularly attractive period in our history...
...such mood it is easy to denounce, to find fault, to make unjust accusations, to visit the shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats-even to light fires or throw stones-for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. to refuse to become frustrated and angry: to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair: and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long...
...another, both Ginsberg and Blake reached the mental resolution to involve themselves in the controversies of their times. More remarkably, both managed to maintain a love of humanity and compassion for the suffering of others that Eliot, Pound, and countless other intellectuals abandoned along...
Chile's Aspirations: In essence we want to be an economically independent country with the right to choose our own path. We are believers in self-determination of the people, and in nonintervention. We want to maintain the best relations with all the countries of the world, and we hope that the American Government will understand that. Our revolution is within the right of a sovereign state...
Cloudy Future. Colonsay is an anachronism, and anachronisms are nearly always costly. The owner of the island-the "laird" of the title-is an Englishman named Euan Howard, fourth Baron Strathcona. It was his mixed fortune to inherit the place in 1959 along with the responsibility to maintain at his own expense a broad range of social and economic services. At that time the island cost ? 10,000 a year to keep going. Through economies, the island produce, including cattle and sea kale, is now just about able to support the inhabitants. McPhee likes Strathcona (rather better than his tenants...