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Speaking in cold, forensic tones, Lloyd raised his voice only slightly in an effort to make himself heard above the laughter and vaudeville din of the Labor Opposition, whose parliamentary behavior was about as zoolike as the House of Commons gets. Lloyd argued that the Anglo-French attack on Egypt was justified by the "failure of the U.N. to keep the peace" in the area. He claimed three important objectives achieved: 1) the Israeli-Egyptian war had been stopped. 2) an international police force had been put into position to prevent its resumption, 3) Russian designs had been exposed...
Completely lost in all the din was the fact that the same arguments could as logically be directed against any international art show, including Italy's own famed Venice Biennale. Italy's Education Minister Paolo Rossi, reluctantly announcing the government's decision, added another reminder. Said he: "When a ship leaves Naples with a precious cargo of masterpieces, you Senators must think of the thousands of American ships that crossed the ocean in the opposite direction, bringing us help of all kinds in the most trying period of our history...
AGRICULTURE: "Some political orators-no doubt overly excited by the din of a campaign-actually have been saying that I am 'against' the little farmer-that I consider the farmer expendable-that I think the family farm is obsolete. What kind of drivel is this...
...than pieces of a puzzle. "The archaeologists tell us that the Dead Sea caves are hot and dark," he writes. "The same might be said of the controversy which has raged around their contents. At this point, however, it might be healthy to stand back a little from the din and furor and clouds of dust and try to appreciate the scriptures of the Brotherhood simply from the point of view of what they offer to religious thought and insight. They represent an experience which has been repeated often enough in history-the experience of the typical nonconformist who combines...
...guide meekly suggested that beer actually was 90% water, Norwood obviously saw this only as "a trick of Satan to delude the public." In the noisy bottling house, as the cans and bottles rattled and banged through a maze of conveyor belts, a Baptist voice was heard above the din: "This canning process shows the genius of man to produce a product, and the cleverness of Satan to deceive our hearts and minds...