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...clues to man's past are chiefly fossils, a farrago of frequently undecipherable-and occasionally contradictory-bits of evidence that often raise more questions than they answer. Fossils, the souvenirs of ages gone by, have survived through a still incompletely understood process whereby minerals from the soil infiltrate and gradually replace the very molecules of bone or other hard tissues of an organism, leaving its form and many features preserved...
...language's least printable words, strung together in a scatological drumbeat. The chapter then depicts Antonia, the 16-year-old heroine of the story, masturbating as she falls asleep. In the course of the next 185 pages, she and Rocco, her 17-year-old boy friend, sample a farrago of sex, including sodomy and homosexual affairs. But sex is only one of the reasons that the novel Winged Pig* has become a sensational bestseller in Italy...
...addition to all the battles for office high and low across the nation, there were some fierce campaigns on a farrago of issues. Casinos, handguns, disposable bottles and cans, nuclear safeguards, the size of local governments were among the hundreds of objects of referenda, initiatives and propositions on city and state ballots. Voters in Maryland confronted 21 issues on which their judgment was sought, those in Massachusetts nine, in Georgia 28, for example. Verdicts on some of the most interesting and important...
...years after he was condemned to death by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 23 years after he was reported to be alive in Russia, 21 years after he was said to be a monk in Italy, and less than half a year after Spy-Story Teller Ladislas Farrago claimed that he was still living as a millionaire in Argentina, a West German court last week formally pronounced the Nazi leader dead−along with all the rumors about his escape...
...addition, in the western world, there is "a disgusting farrago of Judeo-Christian religiosity, scientistic progressism, belief in the 'natural' rights of man, and utilitarian pragmatism." All these notions are unacceptable in the light of Monod's revelations. There can be no reliance on an "animist" concept of a covenant between man and nature...