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Thus educated by the state and rewarded by society, French functionaries take their responsibilities seriously indeed. One result is their studied political neutrality. Says Bruno Delaye. a young Socialist who worked in the Ministry of Industry under the Giscard government and now serves Socialist Industry Minister Pierre Joxe: "I was never persecuted under the previous administration, although I could not say what I really thought about certain policies. Now that the Socialists are in power, functionaries who are people of the right will stay in place just as I did before. If some time in the future there is another...
...such rituals lies in the imagination of the threatened party. When you threaten someone, you rely on his foresight cooperating with his memory. Bruno Bettelheim in The Informed Heart, a study of the concentration camps, described the power that the SS used on prisoners: "Childlike feelings of helplessness were created much more effectively by the constant threat of beatings than by actual torture. During a real beating one could, for example, take pride in suffering manfully, in not giving the foreman or the guard the satisfaction of groveling before him. No such emotional protection was possible against the mere threat...
...senior Charlie Meister didn't score any goals. Or any assists. In fact, he probably wasn't within three passes of any of his team's tallies. You see. Brown senior Charlie Meister is a backup goalie. But somehow his entrance into Saturday's lacrosse game with Harvard ignited Bruno's offensive boosters, propelling the Bruins past a crumbling Crimson squad, 11-9, at the Business School Field...
Since 1946 there has been a string of British spies: Alan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo for atomic secrets, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Blunt. All seemed too impeccably Establishment to be spies, and so did Hollis...
...multiphonics (the simultaneous production of more than one note on such normally single-toned instruments as the flute) or reaching into the piano to pluck its strings were considered irrelevant to Bach, Mozart and Brahms. Yet some of the teachers' most talented students were busy reading books like Bruno Bartolozzi's seminal New Sounds for Woodwind, published...