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While debunking the hardened-untruths of others, Harrison always remains self-deprecating, never entrenching herself in deep battle lines of argument. Unfeeling, bloodless righteousness has been the devil of her life; she is always on guard for it in herself. She is sincere when she says she feels "like a hard-faced bitch," when she can't find much sympathy for the woman in a consciousness-raising course who's always trying to draw attention to her domestic melodrama. And in her brilliant indictment of Didion she goes out of her way to be fair, whole-heartedly praising some aspects...
Finally the military took matters into its own hands. Shortly after midnight last Friday, tanks, armored personnel carriers and ground troops fanned out through Turkey's capital city, surrounding government buildings and setting up roadblocks. In a bloodless coup, a National Security Council, composed of six generals, replaced the democratically elected government of Premier Süleyman Demirel. Evren, 62, a political moderate who heads the junta, said in a radio announcement that the army had moved to prevent "followers of fascist and Communist ideologies, as well as religious fanatics, from destroying the Turkish Republic...
That the term essay should evoke any negative connotations is probably a factor of our early classroom experience with a stuffy set of notions that link formality to style and set a premium on bloodless analysis and objectivity. While these principles might apply in an odd way to Montaigne and Francis Bacon, it must be remembered that the congenial essay has always been one of our most personal, eccentric, and adaptable forms. "One damn thing after another," Aldous Huxley called it, "but in a sequence that in some miraculous way develops a central theme and relates it to the rest...
...State Department reported last night that the government of Turkey, a NATO member and strategic military ally of the United States, has been overthrown in a bloodless military coup. Spokesman Sondra McCarty said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara reported no violence or danger to Americans there...
...paid a price for his analytical purity. Frequently, as Steel claims, "Lippmann's concern with the process of government made him lose sight of the human drama involved." Indeed, heated emotions exasperated him. His columns on the imminent executions of Sacco and Vanzetti seem peculiarly bloodless, especially since he privately believed that an injustice had been done. In 1938 he supported a Southern-led filibuster against a federal antilynching law, arguing that "if the spirit of democracy is to be maintained, a minority must never be coerced unless the reasons for coercing it are decisive and overwhelming." Steel adds...