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...marvel that you could write a full-page Essay about protesters, who despair of making themselves heard, without mentioning the most obvious point: we did hear their bleats. We heard, man. we heard that Bobby Seale is just a spirited kid being imposed upon, that the Chicago Seven were just fun-loving kids out for a lark, that Gene McCarthy's policy of precipitate flight from Viet Nam is best, that the Nixon Administration is a fascist dictatorship, that students own the universities and are entitled to burn them down at will, that Che Guevara was a public benefactor...
Bombed to rubble in World War II, Rotterdam later became a marvel of economic growth. Holland's second biggest city now boasts the world's busiest port and a vast complex of petrochemical plants with blue-chip owners like Shell and British Petroleum. Unfortunately, the marvel also gushes appalling fumes - acrylates, hydrocarbons, paint solvents and sulfur dioxide. Of all Dutch deaths from bronchitis in urban areas, the highest number occur in Rotterdam. Dutch workers are quitting the city's industries, which are seeking replacements from as far away as Turkey...
...Idealist. Rarely is Casals personally revealing. He does offer praise for Martita, his youthful present wife, married in 1957. "She is the marvel of my world, and each day I find some new wonder in her." It is only in the second half of Joys and Sorrows that the reader begins to glimpse Casals the idealist, who used his artistic prestige to protest political injustices. Early in life he rejected socialism: "Full of illusions about changing society and man," he decided. "How is man to be changed when he is full of selfishness and cynicism, when aggression is part...
...these issues are part of the same battle. The government must not be allowed to continue its war in Vietnam and in the ghettos while activists marvel at the bravery of minks and muskrats...
...issue of Today's Health contained an article about a man who had spent $28,000 on Diabetics and was still not Clear. Obviously, the real or imagined dividends of processing are made highly desirable; one is forced to marvel at the confidence Hubbard inspires. Consider his description of being a Clear: "Compared to a homo-sapiens, homo novice is very high and god-like." But, "compared to a truly self-determined being, homo novis is an ant ready to die under anybody's misstep." Ah, so Clear is only a beginning. After Clear, one begins work on becoming...