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...agree with Professor Kelman that academic freedom is both fragile and precious. Furthermore, I agree that the SDS and UAG have "undermined efforts to debate the issues raised by the publication" of my article. I doubt, however, that Professor Kelman can see his letter as yet another form of intellectual suppression, albeit more polite and less deliberate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "POLITE INTELLECTUAL SUPPRESSION?" (HERRNSTEIN REPLIES TO KELMAN) | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

...mother was an ecologist before her time, and bred in me this feeling about land being precious, in some way the ground of our physical being...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

...opposition should set up a shadow White House. From that alternative, potential seat of government, he should use his limited, precious time between nomination and election to actually form a government, discuss and clarify issues and establish a meaningful national dialogue on problems and goals. The model lies in the British experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Toward a Better Presidential Campaign | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...come from," said Charley's aunt, thus inadvertently assessing the extent of nearly everyone's knowledge of a country that covers 6% of the earth's land surface. But Brazil, especially Amazonia, is the last old-fashioned Eldorado left, a trove of unexploited gold, rare woods, precious stones, exotic pelts and untold deposits of minerals. It is also one of the last places where the bloodshot eye of the fatigued humanist can still see in progress the fatal consequences of Eldorado: the destruction of indigenous peoples. Lucien Boclard, a French journalist and author (The Quicksand War: Prelude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Eat Man | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...Your Precious Love...

Author: By Charlie Allen, | Title: The Crimson Supplement | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

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