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...People expect us, by virtue of our size and mission, to adhere to a purer standard than (other) private institutions," Brewer said, adding quickly that he does not object to that role for the University. "I think we ought to act toward our neighbors in neighborly fashsion...
...fuse under the China-Viet Nam explosion had been sputtering for nearly a year. Last spring, intent on consolidating their purer-than-thou socialist revolution, the Vietnamese authorities decided to root out "bourgeois trade" and "dangerous elements," namely ethnic Chinese who had lived for years in northern mining areas, in Danang and in the bustling Cholon district of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). An estimated 160,000 Chinese refugees fled the country, aboard fishing boats or on foot across Friendship Pass, to resettle on communes in Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces. Meanwhile, a sporadic series of raids and skirmishes that...
...life is wholly devoted to the adulation of their god, Lord Krishna. Days begin with chanting, often as early as 2 a.m. All daily activities revolve around the Lord, dancing to keep his spirits happy and tending to his holy altar--all for the purpose of attaining a higher, purer state of "Krishna" consciousness...
...society cannot remain in an abyss of lawlessness, as is the case in our country. But it is also demeaning for it to elect such mechanical legalistic smoothness as you have. After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by T.V. stupor and by intolerable music...
What Solzhenitsyn seeks is a return to aspects of man's spiritual nature, or, as he says variously, "things higher, warmer and purer," "the Superior Spirit," or the "Supreme Complete Entity." He wants some higher principle which will help guide individuals to achieve their human potential. Western materialism which he believes promotes only weakness and mediocrity, has no place in his scheme of things...