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...Lurch that Failed. On the plane manifest he was listed as Lucio Lee, but his real name was Ang Tiv-chok; he had left Amoy, in South China, in 1947, and now was wanted by the Philippines for attempted murder...
Indications of the babe's presence are manifest in out-of-the-way spots, too. He was blandly revealed in Nevada by a deposition of Senator McCarran's where the law-maker admitted to accepting favors from hostelries on a scale not seen since several bureaucrats were heaped with aggrieved indignation for doing precisely the same thing a few years past. Chirrups from Formosa, concerning the future speedy collapse of Mao's regime under the blows of Chiang's battalions, are another instance...
These "ceremonies of self-accusation," Aron believes, can only be understood as "religious rites, rather than instruments of a rational method . . . The goal is to manifest the absolute nature of the supreme power by forcing millions of men to act and talk as if they took absurdities to be the truth ... All religions tend to impose upon the faithful the image of a world which is more true than the world of the senses. In Stalinism, that world is simply the interpretation which the party gives to events, an interpretation which is never definitely fixed. By confessing crimes which they...
...standard of value. It's either art or it's not art. There's no special virtue in something because it's been done by somebody you've shaken hands with. There are things being created today that are great -but great because of manifest genius. Not because they were created today...
...beyond Peking to Moscow. Their message: the U.S. has come to the end of its patience in the ten-month effort to achieve an armistice in Korea, and will fall back no further. Said the departing U.N. commander, General Matthew Ridgway: "The issues are clear, the stakes are manifest. Our position is one from which we cannot and shall not retreat...