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...Where's the harm in flaunting my pesos or flashing my jewelry? It's . . . too oblique a contingency that I might ever be killed doing good deeds. It passes the time. And perhaps some bad man will take the bait, and God never notice that it was entrapment...
Along the way, Elkin displays his unique gift for surreal parody. In a sultan's harem, the chief eunuch gives a sex lecture in the tone of a call-in therapist: "You could fault tonight, you could die. In any event, I trust a review can do no harm, and I enjoy our chalk talks." A crusading George speaks with Joycean extravagance: " 'We were friends,' he says again of the man he has just mutilated. . .'He was wily. I frisked his shift and groped his robes. I did his duds like a dowser. . .And it came...
...major controversies: Harry's putting her on his Senate payroll in 1941 at $4,500 a year, almost half his Senate salary; and her acceptance while First Lady of a gift freezer that was linked to an alleged influence-peddling scandal. Neither issue did her much harm. During a Senate probe of the Democratic freezer flap, the highly partisan Republican Joseph R. McCarthy called her one of the "finest things about the White House" and declared her above suspicion...
...absurdity of such argument tends to mask the grievous harm the Arabs nearly succeeded in inflicting upon themselves and the rest of the Third World. Had Israel been excluded from the U.N., top-level officials in Washington--including Secretary of State George P. Shultz--said the United States would have departed as well. Such a move would have destroyed what little legitimacy the world body has left. And because the U.S. funds 25 percent of the U. N. 's budget, worthy projects--like development assistance for the Third World, did to Palestinian refugees and the maintenance of a peace-keeping...
...years ago as a conservative alternative to what it viewed as the excessive liberalism of Dartmouth students and administrators. Their right to provide such an alternative I do not question; indeed, I fail to see how responsible intellectual discussion of the problems facing a college or university can harm that college or university. But over the past two years. The Dartmouth Review has often degenerated into little more than a thin veil for personal attacks, racist comments, and an offensive, satiric sarcasm, thereby belying the principles of the very conservatism they claim to espouse and causing deep divisions within...