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...scientific method" for all its contributions to modern life remains "emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty." And Romantic knowledge stands outside shouting obscenities and muttering about human value spontanity and grace. Pirsig's chautuaquas trace this division of knowledge backward into antiquity. Then they move forward into a "root-expansion" of scientific thinking. He attempts a synthesis that unites Romantic and Classical knowledge and overcomes their fatal opposition...
...real peace settlement. Such a settlement would probably involve territorial concessions by both Israel and the Arab states; more fundamentally, it would accept, somehow, the right to self-determination of all the Middle East's peoples, including the Israelis and the Palestinians whose current homelessness lies at the root of the area's continuing agony...
...Jokes. Standing ramrod-straight in a business suit, Gothard lectures with few gestures, fewer jokes, no vocal theatrics and as props, only an easel for sketching and an overhead projector that flashes charts and lists of "Basic Steps" or "Root Problems" on a screen. Yet his hearers sit in rapt attention, jotting in thick red notebooks. Half of the listeners are in their teens or 20s, half are older couples, mostly white Protestant and middle class, eager for packaged help on the woes that afflict modern American families. Thousands are so enthusiastic that they take the course a second time...
...Doctors have long been puzzled about the cause of primary dyslexia, a common learning disorder that afflicts between 2% and 5% of all U.S. schoolchildren with average or superior intelligence, and interferes with their ability to read. Most researchers assume that the root of the problem is in the cortex, site of the brain centers involved with thinking and learning. But two New York City doctors offer a different explanation-one that could lead to earlier diagnosis of this disorder...
DECROW GOES TO great lengths in speaking about the root of inequality in the legal system--the law school. She cites problems she encountered in her own legal education. An especially interesting quotation came from a "popular first-year property casebook" which says, "For after all, land, like women, was meant to be possessed." At the beginning of the book DeCrow provides extensive historical background for her theories. Most of this material is not germane to her present subject--today's injustice--because it is concerned with legal practices long dead and buried. DeCrow does spare her reader...