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...article about assassination as an instrument of diplomacy does not mention Utopia by Thomas More (1516). The people of that perfect community are described as pacifists who detest war but recognize that sometimes it is unavoidable and therefore try to achieve its aims with the least loss of human life. So "as soon as war is declared, they promise great rewards to anyone who will kill the enemy's king, and smaller (but still very great) rewards for killing those whom they regard as most responsible after the king for plotting aggression against them . . . Though this manner of waging...
...purpose. But there is still something to be said for the gut reaction. The technology involved in the new machines is forbidding in itself--electronic gadgetry scanning your fingers, read and green lights rendering judgement. If a simple, Thurberian mistrust of machinery were not sufficient reason to fear and detest and hand-print machine, there would still be the cool efficiency that would replace the myopic checkers. At Harvard, as elsewhere, we've come to treasure inefficiency as a substitute for less capricious guarantees of benevolence. If the tangled mess of Rules Relating is not oppressive, it's because...
Pyrrhic Victory. Most other Australians still detest the dingo. They have spent about $330 million since the turn of the century to eradicate the animal. They hunt the wild dogs from planes, bait sheep carcasses with poison, pay a bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board...
Some carnivors ask not to room with vegetarians. Do they detest soy bean? Well, that's a pity because most of the hamburger you'll be eating at Harvard will contain a good deal of these "protenaceous meat substitutes". After a couple of weeks of the food here, it's not difficult to turn vegetarian involuntarily...
...they rent a modestly priced seaside villa for a month on the island of Corsica, where they sail and waterski. Occasionally during the year they take long weekend trips to London or resorts in France. Though they could probably afford it, they do not own a country house. Both detest traffic and tremble at the thought of the interminable, bumper-to-bumper return to the city every Sunday night...