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...anthology does not hide Belloc's often absurd fixations. But it does reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...
...Papanek says the present regime did not come to power by an anti-communist coup. This is absurd. Suharto did stage a coup in 1965, and it was directed against the Indonesian Communist Party, 500,000 of whose members and supporters were killed...
...warplane" and went on to claim that U.S. overseas bases were "hotbeds of aggression, intervention and espionage" created by "the mad desire of U.S. imperialism to dictate its will to all mankind." Pravda hinted that the U.S. had "reincarnated" the policies of John Foster Dulles. It also made an absurd comparison between the U-8's accidental overflight and the U-2 spy-plane affair of 1960. While the two flights "might have had different concrete aims," said Pravda, both were "aimed against the state interests and security of the U.S.S.R...
COMPOUNDING the doctor shortage, says the Carnegie Commission, is the absurd fact that "expensively trained physicians are performing tasks that could well be carried out by less broadly trained personnel." Such tasks include taking the patient's history and blood pressure-chores that a doctor need not do. The U.S. has an ample supply of people, including 250,000 retired nurses, many of whom would gladly help doctors concentrate on more serious matters. Each year, the armed forces discharge 30,000 highly trained medical corpsmen, including seasoned veterans of battlefield medicine in Viet Nam. But in many areas...
...this Fall, and starting next year, he could be full-time if he would give up his phys. ed. job at the University. Someone pointed out that Yovicsin's heart might give out some Sunday if the Patriots were to win, a hypothesis subsequently denounced as patently absurd by Billy Sullivan and two-thirds of his players...