Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles are putting down everyone--the eggman (the primordial progenitor of mankind) and also the eggmen, all the people walking around today producing and propagating. We're all Lewis Carroll's walrus, crying while we destroy the young but destroying them anyway...
GlLGAMESH, by Bernarda Bryson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). A retelling of what is said to be the oldest legend known to man: the story of Gilgamesh, the great king of a Sumerian city, and his friend Enkidu, the half-beast, half-man originally created by the gods to destroy him. With its magnificent illustrations by the author, this book should appeal to all ages...
...Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people. To admit Britain now with all its economic ills and un-Eu-ropean ways of doing business would be to destroy the Common Market, he said. Europe and Britain are "incompatible." However, De Gaulle added generously, France would be glad to consider some form of second-class associate membership for Britain to "favor commercial exchanges...
...Robert F. Drinan defended abortion laws. "An unborn child is still a child," he said. "In the foetus we see God's intention to create a human being. To destroy that human being is murder...
...increase, he stands to annoy everybody-and the closer to Election Day 1968 the increase is enacted, the more annoyance he is likely to arouse. Nevertheless, nearly all his economic aides-and many businessmen-consider the tax increase essential in order to avoid an inflationary burst that could destroy the dollar's viability in world trade and its purchasing power at home. Judging from the mood of Congress, he is not likely to get the increase without taking a fiscally responsible ax to some current federal spending...