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Pull Up Your Socks. The strictness of the fast was an impressive profession of faith in Islam, the world's great third-force religion, a monotheist faith akin to Christianity and Judaism,* dedicated to stamping out polytheist religions, e.g., Buddhism and Hinduism, as pagan and "immoral...
...Somewhat akin to flat disagreement with the instructor is the system of deliberate misinterpretation of the question. The question, for example, states that The Dolls House is a great play and you must discuss it in terms of A, B, and C. You have not read: The Dolls House, so you state categorically that The Dolls House is a lousy play and discuss Hedda Gabler, instead. Presumably you have read Hedda Gabler, and if you do a good job on it, the grader can often be lulled into thinking that critical analysis rather than desperation caused you to misinterpret...
...making of one of Her Majesty's ministers in Britain is something akin to turning out a good Scotch whisky. It takes considerable mellowing in the cask of Commons, a goodly bit of gentle sloshing about in the lower recesses of the ship of state and a year or two in the political cellar of some influential member of Her Majesty's government...
...some Latinos, of course, democracy has more significant meanings. The Uruguayans recently exchanged their President for a committee-style government, akin to the Swiss. Mexicans have given the Indian absolute political equality. Brazil, the land of 50 million whites and Negroes, carries day-by-day racial democracy to a point far beyond anything the U.S. can match...
...without whose "cooperation" the picture cannot be successfully filmed, let loose a broadside at the whole movie project. To Producer Stanley (Champion) Kramer, Information Chief Rear Admiral Robert Hickey wrote: "I believe your production would plant in the minds of millions the idea that life in the Navy is akin to confinement in a psychiatric institution...