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...civilization, with the possible exception of the Aztec, could produce an art whose sexual ferocity would rival that of the West," according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that made it possible to slaughter Jews, Van den Haag believes. Similarly, he says, today...
...shot, or arrested by a People's Tribunal. All those things were conceivable, if remote, but none of them happened. Things like that happen to some left group every day, and one must remember that in police raids, the police do not merely ring a group's headquarters and chant anti-leftist slogans...
...villagers in Ramparts of Clay, yesterday, today and tomorrow are one. The muezzin's chant, the shepherd's flock, the inexorable rhythms of the desert-all seem to have been delivered whole from the verses of the Koran. In Director Jean-Louis Bertucelli's first feature, that isolation has the dimension of tragedy. Though France has granted Tunisia her independence and social change has been promised, the citizenry are still degraded, the colonial mind is still at work...
...without examining its "constitution," the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. The CRR exists to enforce "by due process of law" this Resolution. The Resolution attempts to lay the ground-rules of conduct for all members of the University. ALL members. That is the theory. In practice, however, the radical chant, "You're right, we're responsible," is not far from the truth. The Resolution essentially boils down to two points: First, students should not touch or obstruct administrators; second, administrators should be alert to what students are saying, and give "full and fair hearing" to "reasoned expressions of grievances." Further...
Gradually, as this chant of identity was repeated louder and louder, it would spread from the nine cheerleaders to the entire student body, almost shaking the impersonal wood and brick of the functional, modern gymnasium. Here was my first experience of being a representative person...