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...than liberal. But the study indicates that people are both simpler and more complex than such a formulation suggests-and than the experts have recently assumed. The message is conservative only in the sense that it dares to invoke the concept of human nature at all-a concept long dismissed and derided. Different though the various views of human nature may be, the very use of the term implies that there is something permanent and irreducible in man and that his resistance to outside manipulation is a kind of triumph. This does not defeat or dismiss the experts...
...Salisbury these days. Signs in public places warn against loose talk that might jeopardize security. STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS CAN KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers. More houses than ever are up for sale, but there...
...cannot close her eyes. She starts talking to Tomas in bed about an incident where she was set upon by two men and almost raped. She found, to her shame, that she wanted to be violated, but her body would not permit it. She laughs, as if to dismiss this confession - and all it implies - then, out of control, starts to cry, then laugh again, then gasp through both at once. Soon she tries to kill herself. Tomas takes her to the hospital. There Jenny slips through a series of bleak dreams, fantasies of childhood where she is dressed...
...dialectic view of history even as he remained committed to establishing the kind of order that Marx regarded as inevitable. He later became convinced that workers would fare better under capitalism than they had in Stalin's Russia, which as the years passed became harder and harder to dismiss as an aberration. Eastman wrote an ex-Marxist liberal in 1941: "The real difference between us and you, in my opinion, is this: In a period when certain means we had all agreed upon for emancipating the working class, and therewith all society, have proved to lead in the opposite direction...
Carter later ruled in Browning's favor on another matter: a defense demand that Patty's case be dismissed because the Government had withheld evidence that might help show the defendant's innocence of the charges against her. At issue were the photographs taken by the Hibernia Bank's security cameras, which clearly showed Patty taking part in the robbery. The defense claimed that the prosecution's reproductions of the pictures left out S.L.A. Member Camilla Hall, who, Patty's lawyers argued, was pointing her carbine at the defendant. Vernon Kipping, the FBI expert...