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...Will the pendulum swing too far? One of the ablest of Nixon's appointees (in no way tainted by Watergate) sometimes broods: "It is much too easy to destroy a President." The fact is, it is not easy at all. The American governmental system gives tremendous security to a President. He can sustain severe political defeats, even scandals, and still function reasonably effectively as President. What he cannot do after defeat and scandal is pose as the supreme embodiment of American history and purpose or some democratic monarch by divine right. But he was never meant to be that...
FOLK MEDICINE always had many different ways to determine what the new baby was going to "be like." If a pendulum hung over the expectant mother's stomach swung to the right, the baby would be a girl; to the left, a boy. A "high" pregnancy--that is one where the baby sits high in the mother's stomach--meant that the baby would be strong and healthy...
This is the third of a four-part series in which TIME examines what may be the beginning of a pendulum swing away from liberalism, rationalism and scientism. In the first part of the series, TIME'S Behavior section discussed "the rediscovery of human nature" by behavioral scientists. In the second, the Religion section considered the decline of interest in secular problems and the renewed search for the sacred. This week the Education section examines recent reappraisals of some of the purposes, methods and results of schooling...
...straining to meet its Luther at a yet undiscovered cathedral door. Some hail it as an evolutionary crisis, with the cells of the old humanity fairly bursting to reassemble into some more spiritual new being. To others it may be a more prosaic phenomenon, the inevitable swing of the pendulum, the return to some forgotten truths-or to dangerous superstitions...
...pendulum of taste is beginning to swing in the other direction. To many eyes, there is nothing so gaudy, nothing so gauche, as a huge solitaire diamond-and there is nothing so exquisite as an artfully crafted bauble. A growing number of jewelry designers here and in Europe are creating a New Jewelry that depends on purity of line, elegance of form, grace of motion to make its uncluttered point. Using materials less rare and less intrinsically valuable than gems-silver, bone, ivory and wood-their work is stark, simple and sculptural. Encrustation is gone; design, once more, is everything...