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Because my emotional apparatus is a little jammed, whenever acutely upset I begin to laugh hysterically; so I suppose I conformed very nicely to her sterotypical fancies about blacks. She talked on and on, every now and then mentioning blacks while casting a significant look in my direction. Her Dear Friend was no better, periodically contorting her facial muscles in expressions suggestive of profound empathy. I marveled at the speed with which, after speaking at such length in her flatulent way about the arrogated rights of the individual, she could forget her own preachings and attempt to make me into...
...rash of espionage cases followed defection to the West of Lieut. Werner Stiller, a key officer in East Berlin's state security apparatus. Stiller, who was actually a West German agent, identified a number of East German spies working in West Germany. Since his defection, 14 suspects have been arrested, and 18 others have escaped to the East...
Since China's normalization of relations with the U.S., the Soviet propaganda apparatus has been working overtime to indict the Chinese. Peking's rulers have been accused of everything from planning germ warfare to running the world narcotics trade to assassinating President Kennedy. The polemical tone carries over from the popular press into the theoretical world of scholarship. One recent monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China...
...Federal Government has a considerable regulatory apparatus to prevent nuclear radiation poisoning. Nothing is being done about dioxin, and it is just as toxic and there is a lot more of it around." So complained Victor J. Yannacone, Jr., the lawyer who got DDT banned...
...lives with his wife Pat, a painter, in a cabin north of town. Next door is a two-story studio outfitted with recording apparatus, as well as tools for woodcarving, instrument making and boat designing. In his younger days, Bok earned his keep crewing on boats and working in the shipyards, but his voyages now are for recreation only. The long trips he reserves for his imagination. "A song is a vessel you fill with your living," Bok once wrote, a definition full of fancy homespun that suits a man who calls himself "a traditional folk singer," but whose craft...