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...fail to achieve the virility substitute of money, power or meaningful work, they can explode in violence. Not that man has a killer instinct; he simply does not fully realize the effect of pulling a trigger and blowing off another man's head. Modern long-range weapons further blunt his sensibilities. Mussolini's son extolled the bombing of the Ethiopians: "I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center of a cluster of tribesmen, and the group opened up like a flowering rose. It was most entertaining...
...logic and reason, the North seemed unable to win in the East. The West was a different story, however, and slowly the federal vise tightened on the vital Mississippi. One improbable name, Ulysses S. Grant, stood out, and as defeat followed defeat in the East, Northerners still remembered his blunt demand for the "immediate and unconditional" surrender of Fort Donelson in 1862: "I propose to move immediately upon your works." Donelson surrendered. Finally in March 1864, Lincoln himself remembered, and Grant was given charge of all the Northern armies, Moving East to take personal command of the ill-starred Army...
...Blunt & Brutal. Jenkins, who took over the chancellorship last November after James Callaghan quit in humiliation because of the devaluation, reject ed the half measures with which Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government in the past has tried to cope with Brit ain's worsening economy. Instead, he struck squarely at the most bothersome aspect of Britain's financial weakness: a balance of payments deficit that reached $1.3 billion last year. He hopes to turn that deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus this year by the blunt and bru tal method of taking money from British pockets...
...committee last month asked J. Petersen Elder, dean of GSAS, to consider changing some of the men's dorms to women's dorms, David Feintuch, editor of the Harvard Graduate News; said yesterday. "The answer was a blunt no," he said...
...basically conservative constituency (it is only 6% Negro), his votes last week to invoke cloture to end the civil rights debate and to defeat an antiriot measure undoubtedly did. But Harris' own Senate colleagues have come to expect the unexpected from the new-style Sooner, a tough-minded, blunt-and brave-political tightrope walker. After only three years in the Senate, Harris is already regarded as a possible future Democratic leader...