Word: ill
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Paternal Duty. If his complicity is proved, what could Indonesia do to Sukarno? One possibility is hospitalization. Already some leaders are suggesting that Sukarno may be mentally ill; during a recent shopping tour, for example, he embarrassed the salesgirls with lengthy inquiries about contraceptives, adding bluntly that "homemade ones are easily damaged." Exile is another; Sukarno's youngest wife Dewi is in Tokyo awaiting the birth of a child next month, and Sukarno might make an exit on the grounds of paternal duty. If he does leave Indonesia, the odds are against his returning...
Such self-contradictory statements reflect the tortured attempts to reconcile morality with the hard facts of history. It is a task for which modern Western man, and particularly the American, is ill prepared. The U.S., as the most powerful nation in the world, has never systematically thought out the legitimate uses and the inevitable limitations of power. The answer cannot lie either in mere swagger or in mere compassion. The age-old problem of reconciling love and justice is cogently analyzed by German Catholic Theologian Karl Rahner, who feels that "it is impossible to make our existence a paroxysm...
...President, says Hurd, "was very damn rude. I worked my tail off. He hasn't the least concept of how an artist works." Yet he insists that he really harbors no ill will and still likes L.B.J. "He's a dynamic visionary. I'm surrounded by Johnson haters, but I'm not one of them...
...Legacy. When he became ill, Ruby screamed that his jailers were piping mustard gas into his cell. Later, when doctors discovered that he was suffering from adenocarcinoma-a cancer that had spread swiftly through most of the cavities, ducts and glands of his body-Ruby accused them of injecting him with the disease. Almost from the moment of his arrival at the hospital on Dec. 9, Ruby's case was considered hopeless-and he knew it. Yet he seemed calmer and more lucid at the brink of death than he had for months-possibly because he had a window...
...millions of Americans, Christmas still goes on merrily for the full, traditional twelve days afterward. This is the season to return all the unwanted, ill-chosen, mismatching, wrong-size gifts, either for exchange, cash or credit. As a result, for the past two weeks stores have been almost as crowded as they were in the weeks preceding Christmas -although the January "white sales" are only beginning...