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...rugby you always give your opponent the benefit of the doubt," says one Harvard player." "He's often quite involved in the game, and sometimes doesn't realize that he has hit you illegally. At any rate, if it's a flagrant enough violation the referee is bound...
These are the prerequisites of humane political effort. Without such underlying convictions all political actions become irrelevant. The cultural manifestations of our generation, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, as much as its social manifestations, long hair and flagrant dress for example, are bound in an inextricable whole out of which emerge also our political beliefs. It is not only futile to cut your hair to further your political interests--it is meaningless and absurd, a betrayal...
Rafferty himself did not seem worried. He came from behind in both his 1962 campaign and this year's primary race against Kuchel. Besides, he has little use for polls. "The pollsters in California are flagrant liars," he storms. "Their polls are phony, stupid and rigged." They are nothing of the sort, but Rafferty may not be entirely unjustified in ignoring their September samplings. In California, the nation's most populous state and growing more so at the rate of 1,200 people a day, it is a commonplace that everything can change in 24 hours...
...left-of-center American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), headed by Old Liberal Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, His budgets rose from $400 million to more than $1 billion annually, and the country's cumulative deficit grew to $555 million. Tax dodging by the privileged was flagrant, but Belaúnde's programs were in any case beyond Peru's fiscal capacity. So he went abroad to borrow money to keep his plans afloat, until the foreign debt mounted to $900 million...
Ironically, my brushes with Southern terrorism came at the times when I was threatening Southern life the least. Nothing happened when I was working on a news story, trying to expose some flagrant abuse or discrimination. Perhaps it is too much to demand logic from the terrorists; but it made it even more chilling to find that violence often had no relation to the potential danger I posed...