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...further step toward dignity, the Senate's presiding officer must forgo reading or chatting with cronies during some of the august body's duller sessions. He must now, the rules insist, give the semblance of attending to the proceedings...
...often practical belief that only violence can pull down the existing order through a crude poetry about the purifying properties of blood and fire. "I believe in the cutting off of heads," proclaimed Marat during the French Revolution, and his contemporary, the Marquis de Sade, preached, in the duller pages of his books, the virtue of murder as policy. Explains Brandeis University Sociologist Lewis Coser: "The act of violence commits a man symbolically to the revolutionary movement and breaks his ties with his previous life. He is, so to speak, reborn." The late Frantz Fanon, a polemicist for anticolonial revolution...
...disadvantage by Christopher Plummer. Surrounding Plummer is a competent cast, including Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Claudine Auger and Gert Frobe. But the whole enterprise seems to suggest that a spy does not necessarily improve the more times he crosses his employers. A triple agent can be three times duller than a single...
...outlined above, which appears the only noteworthy element in a controversy composed of those elements whose social interest lies not so much in their immediate appeal, or their poignant arousal of those central emotions or basic human dignities that are evident in reading a newspaper but rather in duller things, that prompts us to submit the kernel of comment which was brought to mind by a view in print of the exhibition of certain young ladies aggressively antagonizing and hostile to their opponents in the affair who are icky...
...getting excited about everything?, "a law student in a red parka asked one as he sipped a glass of pink punch. "Isn't it dull? I've never seen a duller group...