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Page 97
... potentialities in our day , in the willingness , on the part of military and political strategists , to give to agents of extermination they have created - nuclear weapons , rockets , lethal poisons and bac- teria - the authority to ...
... potentialities in our day , in the willingness , on the part of military and political strategists , to give to agents of extermination they have created - nuclear weapons , rockets , lethal poisons and bac- teria - the authority to ...
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... potentialities are still available in man's redoubtable brain , and still stored - if widely scattered - in all man's organs of mind , in language , tradition , history , architecture , books , records , the synthesis outlined in ...
... potentialities are still available in man's redoubtable brain , and still stored - if widely scattered - in all man's organs of mind , in language , tradition , history , architecture , books , records , the synthesis outlined in ...
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... potentialities in the computer makes the contemporary art exhibition shown here ( top ) , in all its pervasive blankness and artful nullity , an ideal representation of its missing dimensions . Those who are so fascinated by the ...
... potentialities in the computer makes the contemporary art exhibition shown here ( top ) , in all its pervasive blankness and artful nullity , an ideal representation of its missing dimensions . Those who are so fascinated by the ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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