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...virus from which God has so far protected us: lies, psychological warfare, and insults." Face it, said Hassan to his foe: "Whether you like it or not, Morocco will have the regime it has chosen. Make the best of a bad deal and coexist with this monarchy that you abhor...
...already talking as if he were the next President of Argentina. "Our aims are clear," he says, "and we will move toward them in orderly, methodical fashion-patiently but with perseverance. We will not employ spectacular methods, which in principle I abhor." During the campaign he struck a nationalistic note by promising an "investigation" of what the International Monetary Fund has been doing "for and to" Argentina. He also promised to "an nul" the controversial oil contracts be tween foreign oilmen and the old Frondizi government. "But no one need be alarmed by this," he said. "Justice will be recognized...
Some of the 13 industry associations that sponsor Scott and National Dairy Month abhor such alarming talk, and turn the statistics to quite a different conclusion. Since the Agriculture Department's dairy products figures are stated in terms of milk-fat consumption (and 1 Ib. of butter is rated as 21 Ibs.), the Milk Industry Foundation argues that 80% of the drop in dairy products represents butter's loss to competing margarine and claims that consumption of fluid whole milk has actually increased 10.9 Ibs. since...
...read the damned thing. But I am very eager to get some penetrative interpretations of it." Durrell obliged, but Hamlet sort of disappeared when Miller wrote about him; it was really Miller on Miller. Durrell might have expected that from a man who admitted: "I am against knowledge. I abhor it. I loathe it. I want to become more and more ignorant, more quiet, more vegetative, more ruminative, more omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous. I want to stand still and dance inside...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--.(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights...