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...special, even desperate attempts to understand. Those who truly make the effort also find that in a strange way the parent becomes the child's pupil; that in guiding his father through the country of the young, the son becomes the father. Psychologists like Berkeley's Paul Mussen predict that this phenomenon may become common in U.S. life, at least among middle-class parents. As Mussen puts it, "We are going to see a period in which the young will be our teachers...
Some analysts go so far as to predict that the industry growing up around video cartridges will become a mainstay of the U.S. economy. By 1980, officials of RCA expect the new industry to reach $1 billion in revenues. Less conservative forecasters put the figure at three times that sum. So far, the cassette gold rush has attracted at least a dozen companies from the U.S., Japan and West Germany. They are battling for the emerging new medium with five competing but incompatible technologies...
...prigs is a cheap price for civilization to pay. Bombs and bomb throwers we've got. But where are the pies? Where are those pie throwers? They'll come in their own time and their own guise. Not even Herman Kahn would dare to predict the details-it is the nature of subversives to surprise. All we can do is wait and prepare to forgive them for the shock treatments they will provide us. Bring on those '70s clowns. A touch of madness may save us from the real thing...
According to some ecologists, it will also be one of the most dangerous. They argue that lowering the water level of the Delta will allow salt water from San Francisco Bay to flow into the verdant Delta region and upset its ecological balance. Other ecologists predict that the diversion of water from the Delta will disrupt its natural flushing action, which is essential to the removal of industrial and agricultural wastes flowing into...
...Pontifical Gregorian University have even asked whether sacramental marriage vows, like solemn religious vows, might not be subject to church dispensation. Monsignor Pospishil, in Divorce and Remarriage, indeed flatly affirms that the church's "power of the keys" clearly extends to sacramental marriage. Such new views, predict West and Francis, will be a long time taking hold. In the meantime, they argue, tolerance can go a long way toward assuaging the anguish of so many Catholics...