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For two reasons, Hoffmann rejected the idea of concentrating wholly on internal reform. First, and most important, it seemed an impractical idea. The ambitious academic, in search of tenure or professional prestige, shied away from the cross-disciplinary approach, just as he now rebels against teaching Gen Ed courses. To...
The stock market tried last week to hurdle the magical 900 mark on the Dow-Jones industrial averages but at the last moment shied away like a nervous horse. Twice during the week, while Wall Street watched with fascinated suspense, the market edged above 900 for brief periods during the...
One of the smaller arks has been moored just below a tributary of the Tiber; soon the gates will be open and the deluge will result. Sodom has been built out of charred plastic and spreads over 25 acres of Mount Etna. Katherine Dunham and her dancers were called in...
Not content with that (plus some $221 million of outright French aid), Ben Bella is demanding half ownership of the oil industry, which now gives him 50% of the profits, so that he can industrialize poverty-stricken Algeria. French negotiators seem willing to give in to demands for joint management...
Foursquare Christianity. Equally appalled by High-Church ritualism and Low-Church doctrinal muddling, Lewis preached an oldfashioned, foursquare Christianity that shied away from neither the hard demands of the church's sexual morality nor from the curiously "unscientific" creatures who populate the Bible. He once wrote: "I find it...