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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no civil law against polygamy in Israel. The Law of the Prophet permits the Moslem Arab minority the privilege of plural wives. The Law of the Rabbis binds Ashkenazi Jews (mostly of Central European origin) to monogamy but does not affect Sephardic Jews (of Spanish, Portuguese and North African origin) or Yemenite Jews (of Arabian origin...
...accommodate out-of-office politicians accused of plotting revolution, Panama has two comfortable, specially equipped cells: one for big shots at Central Police Headquarters, the other for lesser fry in Panama City's Model Jail. Back in 1936, when Temistocles Díaz, publisher of La Nación, was arrested, he got the Class A treatment from President Harmodio Arias-the V.I.P. cell at headquarters...
...building will form part of a new quadrangle behind Baker Library, central building in the present Business School group east of the Stadium. Also projected for the new quaddrangle is a student building. The two buildings will be constructed at an estimated combined million dollars...
...this is not entirely true. Wylie is consistently entertaining and his basic point that modern civilization completely ignores the instinctual nature of man (by building up a great taboo structure around sex relations, for example) is well taken. The various diatribes in which he elaborates on this central this are mostly accurate and uniformly provocative...
Then he introduces a bunch of whores, an atomic scientist, and a lot of other people who will appeal to the folks who read the Saturday Evening Post (and might buy "Opus 21" if properly titillated), and pushes them briskly into conversation with the book's central character, name of Phillip Wylie. Character Wylie takes these chances to deliver Author Wylie's party line, with considerable display of gusto, and the general attitude of a prophet...