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...grander scale, they export class contradictions from this country to the Third World. Every person in this country participates indirectly in the exploitation of people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We have an inflated standard of living as a result of that exploitation. What the Third World revolutionary groups are doing is sending those class contradictions back, because when those Third World countries are free, the standard of living in this country is going to drop. Be prepared for that: understand the consequences of what we are about...
...refreshing new cast of mind to the EEC. "We Europeans are insecure about how to live with democratic institutions," says Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi, whose own country has had three governments in the past 18 months. "The British can help us there. They also see things on a grander scale than...
...Grander Suspicion. On May 25, 1969, Heyerdahl- 54 years old, lean, and tan- again put out to sea, nagged by an even grander suspicion. Reviewing 60 cultural parallels between ancient Peru and ancient Egypt (including pyramids and reed boats), Heyerdahl asked himself: It Peruvians could sail by bal sa raft to the Polynesian islands, might not the Egyptians have sailed by reed boat to Peru? Or at least from Mo rocco to Mexico...
...There have been movies like The Devils before, but only a very few: the Swedish silent Witchcraft Through the Ages, Pasolini's Teorema, Kenneth Anger's Invocation of My Demon Brother. The Devils, however, is rendered on a far grander scale than any of these. It is like a lunatic opera, an attempt to make a furious poem out of frenzy. Russell's flamboyant theatricality and his interest in the perverse have been too much imposed on his other films; but here, style and subject are perfectly matched. The film does not work as drama...
Rethinking Precedent. With his passion for privacy, Fuld rarely mentions publicly that he has two daughters (one married to a lawyer, the other to a doctor), that he commutes between his offices in Albany and Manhattan by nothing grander than a bus, that his favorite hobby is mountain climbing (he once nearly reached the top of the Matterhorn). The judge prefers to be known by his written decisions...