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More patient sociologists who have studied them say that few members of both groups are actually "yobs" (hoods), but that they all are too easily incited by hooligans and by the opportunity to show off. Mod-Rocker antagonism is honed by class resentment, for the Rockers are mostly manual workers while Mods tend to be selfconsciously superior white-collar types. Many Britons see in these outbursts a symptom of deep boredom and frustration that, in different ways, is also shared by the older generation. While the youngsters enjoy unparalleled affluence, they nevertheless see drab lives ahead. As the Guardian diagnosed...
...RCAF Manual...
...over fifty different selections--that is, each can read temperatures or pressures in over fifty different locations. In Holyoke Center and Langdell Hall, engineers go through all of these readings several times a day in order to scan the system for trouble. But next year even this bit of manual work will be unnecessary, since the data processor in Weld will scan all three boards continuously and print out the information on ticker tape. It will also sound an alarm when any of the readings fall outside normal limits...
...Jack Cade promises to "make it a felony to drink small beer." Desdemona reproaches herself for having falsely "indicted" Othello and "suborn'd" her soul as a witness against him. In Venus and Adonis, the temptress sounds as if she were writing a contract: "Set thy seal-manual on my wax-red lips...
...sense, it is absurd to find Communists today fighting each other-and the rest of the world-over a tomb, with a mass of dated polemics used both as sacred writ and a manual of strategy. But unlike monarchists, Reds cannot find legitimacy in a family tree or by divine right. Unlike democrats, they do not draw their mandate from the people they rule. Communist legitimacy, such as it is, derives from the writings of Karl Marx and from the words and deeds of Lenin, the first man to apply Marxism to a living nation...