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Elementary Values. Contrary to the impassioned feelings of Tory backbenchers, the British Foreign Office decided that there was no use in trying to bludgeon Nasser into making concessions: he had to be brought around slowly and carefully by the U.N. and the U.S. In the midst of the negotiations, blustery First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Hailsham, visiting Port Said, blurted out that no British ships could be employed without British crews. This provoked Nasser and his Foreign Minister into rejecting the idea of using any British ships. In the House of Commons, Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd addressed an implied...
...parsimonious use of cheap, irresponsible quacks has helped make the mother a hopeless dope fiend. The elder brother is a cynical and shiftless lush, the 23-year-old O'Neill an unconfident and consumptive fledgling writer. Nothing happens: four people merely taunt and bludgeon and resent one another while slowly, and at length explosively, revealing themselves. The play's movement is not forward, but downward and inward. In bedeviling propinquity, the drunken and the drugged exhibit spectral moments of love and convulsive moments of guilt, make accusations that are in effect confessions, go in for cruelties that...
...Vellucci indicated that he was not acting from mere self-interest. Citing the perennial parking problem, the councillor said he intended to use the highway as a bludgeon to obtain faster action. "It is the duty of the school and of the city, not of the students, to clear up the parking mess," he said. "Unless Harvard provides ample parking facilities for the student body, I may take serious steps to put the belt route right through the Harvard yard or Harvard Square...
...great machines, to love a woman, to try to make a beautiful thing." He speaks against the naysayers who consider such occupations futile, and orders them to "go bury themselves in the earth and get eaten by worms to see if that is less futile." Tom Wolfe swings a bludgeon against lawyers, pedants, critics, Communists, boosters, money-changers, sophisticates of all sorts, artistic women and snobbish men. He showers indiscriminate love on all of the world's loveless...
...Twists. In Pentagon thinking, the new need is for a lean, fully airborne, highly flexible but fully coordinated unit-capable of rapierlike attack, swift dispersal, and bludgeon riposte under any conditions. On paper, the new 101st seems to fit the bill. With a complement of 11,486 men, it is approximately one-third smaller than its two older sisters (the 82nd at Fort Bragg, the 11th at Augsburg, Germany). But it is in its mobility and organization that the 101st provides its novelties...