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...response to such charges, a State Department spokesman last week accused the North Vietnamese of a "monstrous lie campaign," and a White House staffer described the Swedish journalists involved in the controversy as "the conscious tools of Hanoi." The dikes are not being "targeted," Administration officials repeated, though they admitted as before that a few bombs have dropped on dikes near military targets. Some reconnaissance photographs, for instance, showed roads atop dikes that were filled with supply convoys; others showed a stretch of dike with three 37-mm. antiaircraft gun emplacements on it. The State Department at first denied Swedish...
...Beards, longhairs, nuts out there, filling up O'Brien's beloved party seats, ready to tear his whole political life to shreds. He puffed on his Kents and chortled, sitting in his trailer just outside the hall, outwardly calm but inside taut. He would have the whole monstrous affair to oversee...
...anxiety hysteria," while Schur believed that Freud may actually have had a coronary thrombosis. Freud was also profoundly affected by the deaths in his own family, beginning with that of his brother Julius when Freud was only 19 months old. When his daughter Sophie died, he spoke of "the monstrous fact of children dying before their parents." On the death of Sophie's son at the age of four, he mourned: "Everything has lost its meaning...
President Nixon last night brought the world to the edge of disaster. As we face the gravest crisis in a decade, we must not forget that it is the Indochinese people who continue to suffer as American planes thunder overhead and a U.S. supported government prosecutes a monstrous war. The President has told Hanoi: surrender, or else we will starve you into submission. We ask the President how much of the world he is willing to destroy in his effort to impose the American will...
...beginning Comrade V. is a case of the scientist as monstrous prig. When he played goalie on his school soccer team, young V. effortlessly blocked shots as exercises in trigonometry. At his father's funeral he coolly analyzed the seating patterns of mourners as a bimodal distribution. After he married, he computed the time his wife and children were subtracting from his fruitful professional computing-and promptly abandoned them...