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...diabolical threats aimed at the city, ranging from burning Chicago down by flooding the sewers with gasoline, to dumping LSD in the water supply, to having 10,000 nude bodies float on Lake Michigan. Also widely accepted was the boast that from 100,000 to 200,000 demonstrators would descend on Chicago. Actually, the report estimates, only about 5,000 demonstrators came from out of town-of the 668 persons arrested, 364 were from Illinois and of these 276 were Chicagoans...
...full of friends. You are the victim, and that is all you can be in this courtroom. He will throw out your constitutional arguments, all the wonderful safeguards you read about in the New York Times. And he will do it bluntly, without care of subtlety: "Let's not descend to this low level of legal discussion. This is a very simple matter...
...Orwell, political issues were moral issues. He understood that peace and social justice would descend on the world, if at all, from a moral impulse, and where was that impulse to come from? Not from the "self-justifying complacent hypocrisy of the boiled rabbits. . .of the left intelligentsia." The real problem of the West, as he saw it, was to preserve mankind's ethical values- honor, mercy, justice, respect for others -in the face of an almost universal disappearance of a belief in the immortality of the soul. Being naturally a good man, he was a good humanist...
...saying only, "It's curiosity that motivates me." Nonetheless, Night Journey, one of his most radical paintings, says something more. The title is taken from Arthur Koestler's The Act of Creation. To Koestler, the artist exists on a trivial plane of daily existence, but he must descend to a harrowing private Hades if he is to find fresh inspiration. Koestler quotes Sir Thomas Browne that "man is 'that great and true amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.' " Night Journey seems...
...from whence this outrageous outburst of outgoings? The flushings of my toilet training stage that now descend upon my head, the leavings...