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...guardrail of the chapel of the Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica and started battering with his hammer at the Madonna's resigned stone arm, the folded veil, the nose, the translucent shell of her left eyelid. But one may guess: Toth had lost all power to distinguish between an image and the reality it denotes...
This approach is rare, for people around the dying, reminded of their own mortality, use denying tactics themselves. They treat dying patients as objects of dread instead of as human beings "whose thoughts and preferences matter." Such behavior makes a "good death" impossible by failing to distinguish between survival, or biologic existence, and "significant survival," which requires control of pain, respect for the patient's autonomy and preservation of his emotional ties to other people...
...support of his view, Terrace cites the reactions of 200 pigeons, which were taught to distinguish red from green; they were rewarded with food when they pecked in response to a red light, but food was withheld when they pecked at the sight of green. Half got food every time they recognized the red light; for the others, reward was erratic...
...long been fashionable to distinguish the young Marx-compassionate and angry in his sociology and undeniably idealistic in his belief in mass worker democracy-from the mature author of Das Kapital. Harrington, by contrast, finds the early convictions undiminished in fervor throughout Marx's writings and actions, except for a period at the time of the revolutions of 1848 and The Communist Manifesto. He is a surprisingly effective advocate even when he must argue such an essential but difficult point as that Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat "does not mean dictatorship but the fulfillment of democracy...
...There will always be some to spin and spread the lies. But afterwards, will the ordinary man be able to compare the propaganda world with the reality that surrounds him? Or is the world of lies so powerful and deceptive that only the eye of the true artist can distinguish fact from fiction? The Nazi use of radio is rivaled only by the American use of television. As industrial society eats away the old world and drops a substitute behind, we can no longer rely on an obvious disparity between the truth we see and the falsehood...