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Some trivial incident involving Pozdnyshev's wife-like drinking her tea too noisily-makes him "loathe her as though she were committing some hideous crime." In passage after passage, The Kreutzer Sonata reveals Tolstoy's disgust with marriage, which he felt was Sonya's way of gaining power over him. It is nothing but "legalized prostitution," says Pozdnyshev. Sonya's anger and humiliation were compounded by the fact that she had just borne her 13th child...
...more convincing because it was coolly and rationally made. Rationality was not in evidence in the latest issue of the Review when Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at M.I.T., offered his comment on the military establishment. Rehashing the recent Washington Peace March, he called the Pentagon the "most hideous institution on earth" and Senator Mike Mansfield the "kind of man who is the terror of our age." Guilty of "monstrous crimes" in Viet Nam, U.S. leadership, said Chomsky, is "taking the road of the Fascist aggressors of a generation...
...level has fallen, the structure has settled 3 ft. 7 in. Cracks have appeared in walls and ceilings, and postwar smog has corroded the soft green lava rock used by Wright for the building's fantastic ornamentation. Concluded one recent visitor, Novelist Anthony West: the hotel is now "hideous, inconvenient, inadequate and a depressing eyesore...
...wish that Dow had come here as George Lincoln Rockwell did last year, as an unwelcome guest practicing free speech. Unfortunately our problem now is not one of maintaining free speech but of establishing free communication. This difference, between the hideous procedural "free speech" of Naked Lunch style con-men (do I describe the deans as well the Dowists?) recruiting researchers and salesmen for the adhesive medicine that burns whole bodies, families, and countries, and the apophantic, the real, I-thou, perhaps loving communication between brave persons, largely absent in Cambridge, Mass. as in most places I've seen, perhaps...
...diplomatic measure, the ultimatum Peking issued to London early last week was an unacceptable affront to sovereignty and protocol. It was both peremptory and insulting, addressing itself to "the British government's utterly hideous and ferocious features of fascist imperialism." Britain's man in Peking, Charge d'Affaires Donald Hopson, 52, a cool, much-decorated World War II commando offi cer, simply refused to send it to London. Peking, of course, broadcast the texts anyway. It demanded the release of 53 imprisoned Hong Kong Communists within 48 hours and the re opening of three outlawed Red tabloids...