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...high waste drawer at the bottom of the 15-in.-wide appliance. Each time the Masher is filled, which in most households would be daily, a spray device automatically squirts a deodorizing and disinfecting liquid on the trash. Then the key is turned on and the start button pushed. Brute force does the job. The waste is compressed-by a ram that for an instant exerts a force of one ton-into a solid, bag-enclosed brick. The bag can be carried out for ordinary garbage pickup and a new paper bag inserted in the machine. Unlike garbage-disposal units...
...into such seemingly intransigent positions is melancholy testimony that unchecked inflation, no less than recession, breeds sharp social conflict. The bargainers could sorely use a U.S. presidential definition of where the national interest lies. Without it, they seem to be drifting into a battle that will be decided by brute force. In the present climate of social turmoil, that sort of clash between two of the nation's mightiest economic institutions is about the last thing the U.S. needs...
Though the urge to survive cannot be quenched, it seems to bring out the worst in both of them. Boesman is a vicious brute who smashes at his own fate by punching Lena, a nagging termagant who could drive a much stronger man to despair. They tell each other off, but tell the audience very little, except for long, rambling, undramatized remembrances of their atrophied past...
...mass party, "the battering ram on the left," forces brute change on the managers of parliamentary government-so concluded the Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman in the third and final Godkin Lecture delivered at the Law School last night...
...First Amendment grounds. Whatever the result, the Chicago trial underscores an old lesson: courts are poor places for resolving ideological conflicts. In a strong democracy, such cases should not be inevitable in times of social stress. When they do occur, the judicial process that stands between reason and brute force must be respected by the judged as well as the judge. It was not respected in Chicago, and the U.S. is poorer for that fact...