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...simply listing his thousands of fascinating quotes-ranging from Gangster Al Capone on the American free-enterprise system to one Morris Zelditch on fluoridation-Historian Boller has chosen to weave them into a convincing argument for fair play in the use of quotations. But no matter how much harm may be done by distorting quotes, he demonstrates that the unretouched, straight quote can be most damaging of all. Practically everybody at one time or another has made statements that would better have been left unsaid...
...January issue of the Herald, an editorial appeared quoting an unnamed professor as saying, "I don't care what anyone says about me in this school . . . I have failed a whole class before, and I can still do it. I can harm you, while you can't do me a thing...
...Nasserite Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) is training an army of more than 5,000 men in nearby Yemen to take over when the British leave. Even as the British started evacuating the first of their 8,000 dependents last week, Arab extremists were threatening harm to their women and children. Those threats so far were just that, but elsewhere a total of 20 Arabs was killed during the week, seven of them children whose school bus blew up when it rolled over an anti-tank mine planted in the road. Several British soldiers were among...
Sitting in the sunlight, says Dr. Wilson, is good only for plants. "If you don't have chlorophyll in your veins and arteries, direct sunlight can do you nothing but harm.† Human beings would be healthy if they lived inside a building or cave all the time and never went out in the sun." They would also, of course, be pallid, and in today's civilization a pasty hue is no sign of beauty. Aware of that, Dr. Wilson suggests use of an "instant tan" product. For those who insist on the sun, he advises the most...
...does most harm to light-complexioned persons. This is apparently not related to hair color, as widely thought, but to eye color. Most sun-susceptible colors: light green and light blue...