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Boulding warned that there were three threats to the achievement of this "high-level equilibrium." The first of these is the increasing population. He lamented that there are no adequate institutions available to limit the population, and called misery the only effective method at present. Looking ahead 200 years, Boulding saw a "universal slum," should this problem not be overcome...
...stories of men at war seem simple to the point of casualness. But in Umaru he conveys in five short pages a deep feeling for Africa and for the ever-present officer-enlisted man relationship. His touch with children is just as sure; their cruelties, independence and singlemindedness are as transparent to him as they are incomprehensible to most adults. And the ironies of middle age hold no mysteries for him, either. The Breakout is an almost classic story of what happens to the poor devil who knows that neither his wife nor children really need him. When the victim...
...department of the University both to present such a film uncritically, and to accept blithely (and print in the University Gazette) the description "communist-inspired student riots," is to use dangerous and irrelevant government propaganda in the guise of education...
...theory, the House seminars offer small-group instruction to any student not tutored in his field of concentration. At present the non-tutored students make up less than half of the program's total enrollment...
Modification of the present American position on passports and display of greater willingness to negotiate would not substantially improve relations, he stated. Nonetheless, such action would demonstrate to the rest of the world that the "element of irrationality" lies in the Peiping government. The United States must take down its "nylon curtain," Lindsay said, in order to make the bamboo curtain more conspicuous...