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...George Orwell pointed out what should be obvious -that sloppy language makes for sloppy thought. Emerson went so far as to suggest that bad rhetoric meant bad men. Semantic aphasia, both men recognized, kills after all. "And the Lord said: 'Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' " Is there a more ominous curse in the Bible? It breathes hard upon us at this time of frantic change, when old purposes slip out from under the words that used to cover them, leaving the words...
...made astonishingly clear by the release this week of George's first solo album, All Things Must Pass (Apple). Consisting of 15 Harrison originals, one Bob Dylan original, and one joint effort, All Things Must Pass is an expressive, classily executed personal statement that should surprise many, confound a few and please millions. It is not just that George has surpassed all the individual disks issued to date by Paul, John and Ringo. Both musically and philosophically, he has produced one of the outstanding rock albums in years...
Canada's move will also give China one more vote in the annual poll on whether to seat Peking at the United Nations, but it will almost certainly not be enough to turn the tide this year. Moreover, even if the General Assembly were to confound all speculation by admitting Peking this session, the question of China's permanent seat on the Security Council, now held by Chiang's government, would remain unsettled. And the Communists have said that they will not accept U.N. membership until they can claim both seats...
...cover would be disruptive to businesses in Harvard Square and would confound an already bad traffic situation on Mass Ave for about a year a Cambridge city planning office spokesman said...
...paper napkin ?complete with salt, pepper and ketchup. He also liked to knock on strangers' doors and inquire politely, "Is this the party?" Or walk into one door of a Checker cab stopped in traffic and out the other (apologizing to the passenger), or call up relatives and confound them with some uncanny voice impersonation of the rabbi or the neighborhood butcher. It was the kind of desperately funny behavior that was a frustrated child's plea for attention and a cry for help...