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...Correspondent David DeVoss, the auto worker's routine is a daily voyage from tedium to apathy, dominated by the feeling that he sheds his identity when he punches the time clock. At worst, in the industry's older plants, his life is one of physical discomfort as well...
Whether Jackson acted on his own and stole Angela Davis' guns for his raid without her knowledge, or whether she participated in the plot remains a mystery. To the discomfort of her U.C.L.A. partisans, who are fighting her ouster in court and raising money to continue her salary in the meantime, Miss Davis last week vanished. The Marin County authorities have sufficient cause for suspicion that there have been warrants issued for Miss Davis on charges of kidnaping and murder...
Eastwood is an 1865 soldier of fortune who pauses on his way through Mexico to help a nun escape the clutches of some typically greasy and grinning desperadoes. The nun tags along with the adventurer, and her presence causes him considerable discomfort. He ogles her across the campfire every night and takes heavy pulls on his bottle of whisky to still his mighty but unrighteous lust. Screenwriter Albert Maltz would probably call this comic irony. After too many of these interludes, Eastwood delivers dynamite to some rebels and joins them in an attack on a fortress, during which...
...polity may recognize the oppressed as full citizens, honestly, count their votes, and consistently defeat their candidates. Here is a stalemate. The activists have acquired competing obligations both to the system and the system's victims. A radical himself. Walzer is uncomfortable with the paradox he has presented. His discomfort expresses a denial that "imperfect justice should be endured as long as possible." In a burst of patriotic optimism, he argues that in a democracy the hypocrisy of the majority can be exposed...
Because patients have some discomfort for two or three days after a vasectomy, the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in Manhattan schedules all such operations on Fridays; thus the patient will be able to return to work on Monday. The vasectomy patient undergoes no hormonal changes, and if he has fully understood the operation beforehand he should have no emotional problems. His capacity for sexual relations may even be increased, because he no longer fears conception. His sperm, trapped in the testicles, are reabsorbed, and eventually his body manufactures fewer of them. However, some sperm are left "in the pipeline...