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...debt. He blamed the deficit largely on indifferent middle-class blacks who "feel that they have 'arrived' simply because they now occupy high positions, but will not support S.C.L.C. financially." He added: "It is hard to ask for money from white people because you can't beg a man and fight him at the same time...
...relations with the U.S.: "We've had a long, traditional, historical friendship with the U.S. There was a bad period. You had some obsession about China. Now so many fundamental things have taken place between the great powers. [When I visit Washington] I am not going to beg for food. I'm going to discuss our relationship in its totality. I want to hear America's views on our mutual obligations, on the subcontinent and the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf and the Middle East. We are not one of those countries that are ashamed of their...
...Arbus's work at the Worcester Art Museum testifies to this. Repulsion and fascination are wrenched out of your guts when your eyes interlock with those of dwarves, transvestites, nudists, howling babies, and even a human pin cushion. What small sympathy you can muster is directed inward, as you beg for relief from Arbus's harrowing onslaught, and are left numb when none comes. The impact grows stronger as the images accumulate, making it impossible to steel yourself against further mental Iaceration...
Detoured Flight. Hearing radio reports of the carnage, Perón instructed his pilot to fly to the heavily guarded Morón Air Force Base ten miles away. Only that night did he appear on nationwide television to "beg of you a thousand pardons for not having the opportunity [to talk] to you personally...
...something of a disappointment. The conference had been delayed for so long that it had lost its hold on the baroque council hall in Vienna's Imperial Palace. The delegates instead assembled in the austere meeting rooms of the International Atomic Energy Agency, from which they had to beg last-minute shelter...