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...Rhetoric: Bluestone and Harrison just can't resist quoting Marx in support of their plan. When are well-intentioned left-wing intellectuals ever going to learn to speak in terms that don't alienate the very working people they're trying to influence...
...kept 65 harps in her Manhattan apartment. Dilling seasoned her recitals with spirited lectures on the harp's history and anecdotes like the one about the stranger who pointed to a harp, said, "Lady, learn me that," and became her most unorthodox and famous student. His name: Harpo Marx...
...sexual selection operating on the courtship behavior of males that is to put it bluntly, the male who talked the best line got the girl. "But Konner does not just cite scores of scientists and theories to make his points, somehow Shakespeare. Henry James Wallace Stevens, U.S. Eliot, Dante, Marx, Engels, and others find their way into his argument and are at times, as important and appropriate as the neuro anatomists and physiological psychologists he cites so often, indeed almost endlessly...
Powell: In a phrase made famous by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels: "No ruling class ever voluntarily gives up state power." I would be astonished if the ruling class in the USSR, especially under new leadership, volunteers...
...MARX WAS WRONG-gossip, not religion, is the opiate of the masses. As more and more Americans lose their jobs, the national fascination with the comings and goings of the rich and famous proceeds apace Americans head for the soup kitchens, and articles proliferate on which restaurants serve the richest vichysoisse. We are a nation increasingly headed for the poorhouse, consoling ourselves with a fascination for the remaining rich...