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...always its main weapon. Never has a minuscule army enlisted so many gifted poets, playwrights and novelists,* nor a colonial quarrel produced so rich a body of literature. By contrast with its gay and gallant image, in its later days the I.R.A. engaged in violence almost as ruthless and aimless as the Secret Army Organization's in Algeria, notably at the start of World War II, when its booby traps maimed and killed innocent civilians in England. But the S.A.O. men practice violence on a far larger scale, and besides, they do not write nearly as well...
...continued French ownership of Sahara oil and stringent guarantees for Algeria's European minority. The first round of talks broke up last June after only three weeks; a second conference, in July, foundered after only eight days. When the Algerians cried that "the debate has become useless and aimless," Joxe declared: "Our nerves are steady...
...radical regrouping of Christians, with the cadres of dedicated believers in an open and creative rebellion against the "organization church." Dr. Halvorson, assistant director of the American Lutheran Church's board of college education, reports that "A rising crescendo of questions regarding the vast amount of seemingly aimless activity is coming from the center of the church. Innumerable meetings, immersion in 'churchiness,' the not-a-minute-to-spare crowding of the temple calendar and the pursuit of statistical success have left many of the most active members exhausted both in body and spirit...
...your money to worthwhile causes while you're still around. You will not only experience the joy of giving, but you may be doing your children and your wife a favor. For every Rockefeller or Kennedy who was not spoiled by great inherited wealth, you will find an aimless, unhappy man, an alcoholic, and even a suicide now and then. As for your wife, if you leave her more money than she needs, you are surely inviting a flock of hand-kissing experts...
...second, the U.S. has dealt the Alliance a bad blow in its weakest moments. This was to be an era of liberal and realistic attitudes toward Latin America. On the diplomatic and bureaucratic levels no doubt the attitudes are there, but they cannot retrieve all the errors that aimless makers of policy perpetrate...