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...notion of an independent-or, as Joseph Pulitzer called it, "indegoddampendent"-press takes care of all that really needs taking care of. Dropping the adversary label might diminish the justified sense of unfair treatment felt by so many officials. It might even lessen the press's own complacent tolerance of so much of the jostling and hectoring behavior that, when seen on television, the public finds so objectionable...
Last week's action should boost the Core Curriculum's chances of passing almost completely intact. Although CUE's and Faculty Council's rejection of the major amendments is not binding, it will probably diminish greatly the odds that Faculty members will take those amendments seriously at next week's Faculty meeting...
...further losses erased Beling's chances of qualifying for the NCAA finals, but could not diminish the honor of placing in the competitive tournament...
After World War II, the U.S. and Russia wanted to keep the status quo in their zones of influence. But Russia has been more aggressive and has tried everything to increase its power and diminish America's. America wants the status quo in Italy; Russia does not. Although the Communists in Italy are preaching freedom, justice and equality, the Russians do not care whether there is peace, prosperity or justice in Italy, or a civil war or misery. What matters is to gain power, especially against America...
Thirteen years later, the critic George Steiner countered: "Kafka's nightmare-vision may well have derived from private hurt and neurosis. But that does not diminish its uncanny relevance." As Steiner elaborated, Kafka "was, in a literal sense, a prophet . . . He saw, to the point of exact detail, the horror gathering. The Trial exhibits the classic model of the terror state. It prefigures the furtive sadism, the hysteria which totalitarianism insinuates into private and sexual life, the faceless boredom of the killers. Since Kafka wrote, the night knock has come on innumerable doors...