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...away, it had to be shouted away. The horror expressed by neutral nations at Red brutality was answered by strident threats; even India's docile Prime Minister Nehru was pictured as an archvillain who is holding the escaped Dalai Lama "under duress." Now India joined the list of monstrous enemies: Formosa, Britain, the U.S., even tiny states like Thailand and Nepal. "We will never allow those foul hogs to poke their snouts into our beautiful garden!" shouted a Congress delegate...
Exiled Hungarian Journalist Tibor Meray. 33. is a plodding novelist but a masterly expositor of black-is-white party dialectics and the mechanics of self brainwashing. As a Communist reporter in Korea, he cried up the monstrous germ warfare charges against the U.S.. later took part in the Hungarian Revolution and fled to Paris, where he now lives...
...monstrous," read a letter young Astor got from Muckraker Upton Sinclair soon after leaving Harvard to administer his money. "The poor people see in the papers the picture of your magnificent and luxurious home and they realize that it is out of the rents that they pay." But Astor, wiser even then than he appeared to be, replied calmly: "I am not unmindful of the wrongs to be righted...
...coils as soon as a fusion reaction starts up inside. They will contribute more heat, and they may do worse. Neutrons often change a metal's structure in such a way that its electrical resistance increases. If this should happen suddenly to a hydrogen-cooled coil while a monstrous current is flowing through it, much of the apparatus is apt to vaporize on the spot...
...scenes (some take only eight seconds). The play roils with the deluded intrigues of nihilists, whom Camus makes strongly reminiscent of modern Marxists. Perhaps the play's chief quality is Camus' adroit emphasis of Nikolay Stavrogin (ably played by Pierre Vaneck), the book's most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean superman. He instigates a band of young revolutionaries to murder, rapes his landlady's little daughter, finally commits suicide. In the hands of Camus, Stavrogin emerges as a modern man, a desperate seeker...