Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public" if Cosmos 954 fell in a populated area and asked the Russians to share any information that would enable "appropriate measures to be taken to obviate such dangers." The U.S. particularly wanted to know more precisely the enrichment of the uranium on board. Dobrynin's answer next day was "somewhat reassuring" to Brzezinski, "but not fully satisfactory...
Amin's answer, in essence, was that Egyptians could hardly be anti-Semitic since they are themselves Semites. One political cartoon in the influential al Ahram pointedly advised Begin: "Don't make excuses. We are not antiSemitic. We are anti-you." The affair became slightly farcical when the Cairo press fell to speculating over whether the Egyptians were not in fact an older and purer strain of the Semitic family than the Israelis. Then Sadat announced that he had no objection to observing "a quiet period" after so much angry rhetoric; the anti-Israeli press campaign ended almost...
...Foucault's work, reaffirms his meditative brilliance-and Delphic obscurity. As always, Foucault, 51, ransacks history for prefigurations of contemporary power and knowledge. Discipline and Punish analyzes the institution of incarceration as it burgeoned in 19th century Europe and America. Why this sudden, universal appearance? Foucault's answer: to meet the needs of a new, relentlessly scrutinizing "disciplinary" society...
...half of 'failures,' the prison still exists, producing the same results, and there is the greatest reluctance to dispense with it ... Is not the supposed failure part of the functioning of the prison?" After such original investigations, Foucault's question should be rhetorical. Any possible answer is as haunting as the book and as problematic as crime and punishment themselves...
Ginsberg now sees LSD as one of the catalysts that raised his consciousness. "LSD shows you more of what isn't there, and having realized that there are many perceptions of reality, there's no more urgency to explore any one reality like it's the answer, the truth. Everyone's always looking for the truth. The truth is there is no truth. Everything's constantly changing, and the pain from existence seems to come from clinging to some concept of truth or reference point...