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...Clever though the oil companies may be, their new image is laughable, their arguments are phony, and their methods are devious. Worst of all, no means of retaliation exists. There are no corporations around willing or able to spend a tenth of a billion dollars answering the oil companies' assertions or stating the other side of the case. Moreover, this political media saturation comes at the critical moment when the country is about to formulate its long-range policies about energy...
...companies, then, are waging a subtle and clever propaganda campaign. With pressing decisions to be made regarding national energy policy. Americans can little afford to be duped and mesmerized by Madison Avenue con men. Trusting your car to the man who wears the star is one thing; trusting an oil company with a multi-million dollar public relations budget is quite another...
...some clever philosophers of France have discovered now what was known by every child and village idiot in Germany more than 30 years ago: the evil of Marxism. Marxist dogma is hostile to human nature and always implies repression and, ultimately, terror. Marxism is not likely to fade away soon, however. Some people will always repress and terrorize others in the name of some far-off Utopia...
Birgitta is "sane, clever, courageous, self-possessed - and wildly lascivious! Just what I've always wanted." Kepesh's studies suffer as a result of his debauches, and he naturally runs from Birgitta and be comes a sobersided graduate student at Stanford. There he meets an exotic beauty with a mysterious past in Hong Kong and, of course, marries into a life of predictable miseries, the only outcome of which can be divorce and another retreat...
...female monkey 3 gin fizzes and she ran up and down a rope ladder, and the Clever girl was christened by a Russian princess I should like to have violated and there were strawberry gin fizzes and drunken dancing and I was fortunate to get home...