its comprehensive belief system and the absence of meaningful alterna- tives. "To argue that the Moonist solution is inane, preposterous, or unrealistic is hardly a substitute for our not having any specific vision of the future," says Sandon.
The Moonies have rejected contemporary permissiveness for a rigor- ous morality, a spirituality characterized a "robust prayer life and a liturgical orderliness seldom found in conventional American religious life," and a communal lifestyle...
Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani and his conservative associates in the papal curia during Vatican Council II (1964) in oppos- ing any change in the Church's moral and doctrinal teachings, the Council provoked a deeper examination of human sexuality and a closer look at the Church's views on the subject. So writes Father Mur- phy, rector of Holy Redeemer College in Washington, D.C.
Much of the confusion now surrounding Catholic teachings on con-
jugal love springs from the mistaken notion that the basic...
Wade Clark Religious Roof, in Society (May-June 1978), Box A, fistkssness Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
08903.
The rising popularity of many new religious and quasi-religious groups in America reflects a larger disarray. Many Americans are abandoning their earlier religious identities, writes Roof, a University of Massachu- setts sociologist.
Surveys the National Opinion Research Center show that religious defection is occurring primarily among the young (the proportions for liberal...
Wade Clark Religious Roof, in Society (May-June 1978), Box A, fistkssness Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
08903.
The rising popularity of many new religious and quasi-religious groups in America reflects a larger disarray. Many Americans are abandoning their earlier religious identities, writes Roof, a University of Massachu- setts sociologist.
Surveys the National Opinion Research Center show that religious defection is occurring primarily among the young (the proportions for liberal...
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ions-molecules of common atmospheric gases that have taken on a positive or negative electrical charge.
The effects of air ions on living matter (including bacteria, plants, and human beings) are readily apparent but not thoroughly under- stood, write Krueger, a biometeorologist, and Sigel, a psychologist, both of the University of California at Berkeley. It is known, for exam- ple, that depletion of ions in the air may increase susceptibility to respiratory infec...
Frederick P. Schn~itt, in
Gulf Stream Oceans (May-June 1978), Oceanic Soci- ety, Fort Mason, San Francisco, Calif. 94123.
Ben Franklin, America's Renaissance man, was the first person to map the waters of the Gulf Stream, gleaning data on the great "ocean river" from his own scientific observations and the whaling experience of a Nantucket sea captain.
Franklin's interest in the "Gulph Stream," writes Schmitt, curator of the Whaling Museum at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was...
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Nantucket whaling
captains gave Ben
Franklin the data to
prepare this 1769 chart
of the "Gulph Stream."
Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society
to determine exactly when they entered or passed through the stream.
Franklin found 18th-century mariners reluctant to take advice from a
landsman. Modern day scientists, Schmitt observes, recently employed
satellite photographs-not Franklin's charts-in a study aimed at per-
suading capta...
Jon B.
rtful Origins Eklund, in Chemical and Eneineerine
News (June 5, 1978), American Chemical
of Knowledge Society, 1155 16th St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
As a general rule, "pure" science discoveries are later elaborated engineers and other technicians as "applied" science. However, says Eklund, curator of chemistry at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology, the reverse is often the case; a broad body of empirical knowledge is developed...
Calvin Martin, in Natural History
(June-July 1978), Box 6000, Des Moines,
Iowa 50340.
The wre-modern American Indian is widelv viewed as a noble savase
"
who lived in harmonious balance with nature, taking from it only what necessity demanded and respecting animals and plants as fellow spiritual beings. A new look at the historical record Martin, a Rut- gers historian, shows that at certain periods the Indian perceived his relationship with nature to have gone awry and engaged in a fearful...
Calvin Martin, in Natural History
(June-July 1978), Box 6000, Des Moines,
Iowa 50340.
The wre-modern American Indian is widelv viewed as a noble savase
"
who lived in harmonious balance with nature, taking from it only what necessity demanded and respecting animals and plants as fellow spiritual beings. A new look at the historical record Martin, a Rut- gers historian, shows that at certain periods the Indian perceived his relationship with nature to have gone awry and engaged in a fearful...