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...relieved until physical pain has been eased. Yet doctors may refuse sufficient medication, sometimes on the ground that they fear addiction-a meaningless concern on the eve of death. Too little medication lets the doctor pretend, subconsciously, that the patient is not sick enough to die and may betray the doctor's unwillingness to admit to himself that he is not a "magic healer" who can save every patient...
...20th century in the U.S. Harrington's history is revisionist, intended to demonstrate first that Marx and Engels were not authoritarian elitists but popular democrats, and second that the Democratic Party and American labor even now have within them a democratic-socialist movement. Harrington's phrases repeatedly betray the difficulties of such a task: "the unknown Karl Marx" or "the American social democracy, our invisible mass movement...
...Africa, such as Gulf, only serve to prop up these racist regimes and strengthen the political and economic ties of these regimes to the United States. When these United States corporations, the State Department, and their faithful supporters (such as Harvard University) talk about improving conditions for blacks they betray their paternalist, racist and colonialist mentality and act against the wishes of the African people they claim they are "helping...
...homosexual (Alan Mixon). The world casts stones; Williams applies the balm of compassion to the bruises. In his eyes and under his poetic alchemy, these people become the embodiment of the fears that course through all of us at some time or other, the frailties that make us lie, betray any trust, cringe before bullies, vilify others-though in our hearts we wish to do none of those things...
...truck hijacking. "I can't afford to do no more time." he tells a friendly federal prosecutor. "The kids're growing up and they go to school and the other kids make fun of them." Eddie's only hope is to trade recklessly on information and betray his "friends," who, as it happens, are preparing to finger...