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...minute television speech railing against the Indians, whom he accused of "whipping up a war frenzy." Along their borders, east and west, both India and Pakistan massed troops. Both defended the action as precautionary, but there was a real danger that a minor border incident could suddenly engulf the subcontinent...
Public access to the history of American involvement in Vietnam, Cherne argued, could stir "primitive polar passions" and engulf the U.S. in another McCarthy...
Originally La Cansa received much of its energy from the farm worker movement led by Cesar Chavez, but it has grown to engulf the struggle of nearly all seven-and-a-half million Chicanos, eighty per cent of whom live in cities. It is a monumental struggle-social, economic, political, educational, and psychological in nature-which has the no less ambitious goal of providing full self-determination for the Chicano people. It is a struggle which, though it wants to attain a fairly universal goal, will have to develop new forms and means to achieve it. It is not like...
...With a God such as Melville's, one scarcely needs a Devil. He, like Hawthorne, might have taken for his text Jonathan Edwards' fearsome sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." It is those hands, and not Moby Dick's great maw, that finally engulf Pequod and its doomed captain and crew...
...conclusive argument against censorship, but they do underline one fact: no apparatus of censorship has ever been devised, or probably can be devised, subtle enough to assure the freedom of the arts or of ideas. Nor does the new freedom necessarily mean that the wave of smut will further engulf the nation. Denmark's experiment in legalizing pornography, for instance, by all accounts has resulted in a decline of the Danes' own interest in it, as well as in the number of reported minor crimes like exhibitionism...