St Edwards University - Tower Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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206 From The Opening Editorial Statement In The First Issue of World | Edith are undergoing a vast experience in the de-mystification of tribalism. Old ideas of separatism and group identity don’t move men as much as new perceptions of human solidar- ity. What is happening is that the human race is fighting back. It is responding to the accumu- lation of dangers and terrors that could put a torch to the human nest. It is facing up to the bizarreness of gamesmanship applied to human destiny, and to the insanity of making the earth a warehouse for holcaust-producing weapons. It dares to think that ethics can be applied to the behavior of nations and that a time is fast approaching when men will not be ordered to kill or be killed. All sorts of magnificent notions are at large in the human mind today, and the most revolutionary notion of all is that the problem of human survival is not beyond human intelligence. This is not to say hope comes easily. It is not easy to put aside saturating evidence of spontaneous brutality. [t is not easy for humans to find their way back to one another in tender- ness and trust. For it is not governments alone that traffic in quick violence and the cheapening of life. The road to Mylai is not so far from Main Street that our eyes are free of its dust. Nor is it easy to live with the know- ledge that all the accumulated works and art of man can be expunged in a brief paroxysm of terror and madness. Yet the knowledge is taking hold that these things need not be. The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. Civilization begins in the imagination. The wild dream is the first step to reality. It is the direction-finder by which men locate higher goals and discern their highest selves. If we can conceive of a safe and responsible design for our collective lives, we are already well on the way to achieving it. Hope therefore is on solid ground not when it is confined to demonstrated propositions but when it can spring out of sudden new perceptions. Hope may be fortified by experience but that is not where it begins. [It begins in the certainty that things can be done that have never been done before. This is the ultimate reality and it defines the uniqueness of the human mind.

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bows and flows of angel hair, and ice cream castles in the air. and feathered canyons every where, ive looked at clouds that way. But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on every one, so many things | would have done, but clouds gol in my way. Judy Collins