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...embarrassing intimacies, has led them on to endless emotional ostentations, as if, as Saul Bellow once wrote, "to keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." A man sits down at a New Jersey dinner party, beside a woman he met half an hour before, and hears in elaborately explicit detail from soup through coffee, how the woman and her husband managed to conquer their sexual incompatibility with the help of a sex therapist. A magazine writer not long ago met the new young husband of Novelist Erica Jong at a party and realized with a disagreeable little jolt that...
...couple of years ago it would have been ludicrous to describe the music of the Clash in such terms; a tight, angry punk band, they merely translated blunt, explicit feelings of political frustration into bracing, furious music. The first Clash album (released as the band's second record in the U.S.) spit out all subtlety, and the second deliberately sidestepped...
There was no explicit "or else" clause, but then none was really needed. The warning served as an immediate reminder of the fact that twice in the past two decades, in 1960 and again in 1971, the armed forces had taken over the country. "This is a serious situation," admitted conservative Premier Suleyman Demirel, who has been in office only since Nov. 19. Said left-of-center Opposition Leader Bülent Ecevit, Demirel's predecessor as Premier: "The crisis has assumed a new dimension...
...indirect uses of energy, such as airplane travel. It is better to pinpoint aid directly to the poor. In fact, unrealistically low energy prices hurt all consumer because, over the long run, they cause the price of energy to be even higher than it would otherwise be. As an explicit example, the price controls on oil since the 1973 "OPEC Revolution" are one of the reasons why the world oil price is as high as it is today...
...quote, "We are bound as inextricably to our heritage as we are to the shapes of our eyes," from The Genesis Factor. Much of human sociobiology rests upon the speculative assumption of genetic control for social behavior (for which there is not one shred of evidence) with the explicit conclusion that the knowledge of the human genotype will place, limits on the possible forms of social organization accessible to humans. In fact, there is simply no basis for this conclusion in genetic theory...