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Mendes argues that the essence of "modern" politics is the accurate reflection of the desires of various social-economic groups. France's failure to erect a political structure reflecting the drastic changes in French economic life since the Second World War has condemned her to a politics of personality in which "a president is sold like a brand of cigarettes or toothpaste...
...same and nearby strata came bones of a creature that is much more manlike. His well-formed foot shows that he walked erect. Despite his small brain size, he had a fairly high forehead, not a flat one like that of Zinjanthropus. He was probably about 4 ft. tall, but Dr. Leakey thinks that he used tools and weapons. Sometimes he may have killed and eaten his stupid cousin Zinjanthropus...
Hartmann approached with due caution. Suddenly, he saw the General's right arm begin to twitch convulsively. His hand, twisted into a claw, groped its way upwards and clutched his forehead in a vicelike grip. His body, usually as erect as a ferro-concrete tower, tottered and threatened to collapse...
Some time in the all too near future the Radcliffe administration intends to tear down the frame houses which now stand between Garden Street and the Quad and to erect in their place a monumental concrete building designed to house three hundred students. In addition to destroying the grass in the Radcliffe area, this plan calls for the elimination of most if not all off campus living space...
...which is being set up as an ideal, in-place of the noble exactitude and harmonious proportions of the European scientific ideal." His own ideal was ancient Greece. "The dialogues of Plato," he wrote in Time and Western Man, "have not an effluvia of feminine scent; nor do they erect pointers on all the pathways of the mind, waving frantically back to the gonadal ecstasies of the commencement of life. [There was no] softening of the male chastity of thought...