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...Juan insisted, could only develop by first becoming a "warrior"?not literally a professional soldier, but a man wholly at one with his environment, agile, unencumbered by sentiment or "personal history " The warrior knows that each act may be his last. He is alone. Death is the root of his life, and in its constant presence he always performs impeccably " This existential stoicism is a key idea in the books. The warrior's aim in becoming a "man of knowledge and thus gaining membership as a sorcerer, is to "see." "Seeing," in Don Juan's system, means experiencing...
...serve so crucial a function that citizens must endure IRS fishing expeditions into their pockets to finance them. Harvard has a holy mission to churn out graduate students, the better to enlighten dark corners of the nation; farmers must preserve the virginity of their soil, and the SACB must root out subversives who jeopardize national security--all paid for, to greater or lesser degree, with tax money...
...Times reporter Earl Caldwell. The Ellsberg-Russo ease is an extenuation of the 1971 press "victory" before the Supreme Court. The more recent tumult over confidentiality of sources, growing steadily since last July when the Court rejected Caldwell's final appeal by a 5-4 margin, is at the root of the current discussion regarding press freedom. So much has been said and written recently about both cases that it hardly seems necessary to review their basic premises. But the public can only benefit from elaboration of these premises, since it is directly affected by the resolution of the Ellsberg...
...seven-room house in August 1966, just before Matthew was born. Joe left behind an unfinished project-a willow tree to be planted in the backyard. After he was gone, Joan turned it into a family test of hope. They tried many times to get a willow to take root. The trees kept dying. Finally, two years ago a root took. The omen was, of course, good...
Neither inevitability nor revulsion are at the root of sputtering student activism, though; it is that our generation of students caught the crest of the late 60s without experiencing any of the conflicts with established order which came before. Met with the despair and cynicism of a generation that struggled for appallingly just causes, most of us have succumbed to the disappointments of the 70s because we never knew the hopes of that past generation. Our disappointments these last three years should not be so great, though, because it was our predecessors who built the causes in which we joined...