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Refuge in Bravery. And what is the philosophical crux-or crotch-at which Jones stabs-or grabs-in the end? Sex, naturally. All men, don't you see, are really small boys playing at being men. They are all victims of penis envy. As little tykes, they worried that their organs would never grow as large as Daddy's. "I think maybe the whole world is all like that," Ron tells Lucky. "Russians, Chinese, Americans; Presidents, Prime Ministers, Heads of State; everybody. All of them trying so hard to grow...
...sense, Zeligs' analysis of Chambers -- the crux of his book -- is a solid contribution to an understanding of the McCarthy Era. In trials like Hiss's, there were inevitably three categories of participants: investigators, victims and informers. Chambers, for all his obvious peculiarities, had much in common with informers as a group: he was passionate, confused and fanciful, extreme both in his early devotion to Communism and in his later conversion to anti-Communism...
...rationale for the use of force doesn't stand up to examination. McNamara's unwillingness--or the unwillingness of the Kennedy Institute of Politics--for a debate on Vietnam with Robert Scheer was the crux of SDS's justification. "When a public official reneges on a responsibility," one leader explained, "and when all other avenues are closed, it was necessary to do what...
Forced to rely more on imagination than on eyewitness accounts, artists of subsequent ages customarily pictured Jesus stretched on a crux sublimis, towering high above the earth, which the Romans reserved exclusively for illustrious victims. An obscure carpenter from Nazareth, contends Bréhant, would have rated nothing more than the low T-shaped cross, scarcely taller than a man, that was used for the execution of common criminals...
...crux of the case involves an important conflict of loyalties. Should a reporter reveal the names of people when they could lead to the arrest of a criminal, or should he protect his sources and be prepared to go to jail. Miss Buchanan faces a six-month jail term and a fine...