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...dialogue between human beings; nevertheless, no one ought to have the right to use a public forum for raving mistakenly (and without any solid basis) about other men's religion or to foist his own halfbaked and embarrassingly intimate worldview on strangers. The University provides, at great expense, an outlet for students who need this kind of audience...
...fact that in animal societies, dominance, territory and status are generally interrelated, and there is no reason to assume human societies are less complex. These compulsions do not exist in a vacuum; a frustrated man cannot shunt his energy from one drive to the next until he finds an outlet...
Equally hopeless, he claimed, is the attempt to influence Senators, who respond only to powerful group pressure, Rather, the people must be provided with an outlet of expression which will be heeded. "We must find an expression of peace which an average American in an average community can endorse without embarrassment." This, maintains Etzioni, can be done "by chunks of voters organized in packages" such as church groups, or unions...
...began," Feiffer explains, "as frustrated writers." In the early fifties his material was being rejected as universally as it is now sought. Similarly, Nichols and May found their only outlet for critical humor in Chicago's Second City Theatre, and Sahl attracted attention at the Hungry i. "The mass circulation magazines of that period were too rich or satisfied or afraid to start fooling around with strong, radical satire. They turned us down, and so we found other places where we could really swing...
Both Guy's place and his personal battle grew increasingly ambiguous. The Halberdiers teemed with weird Waugh characters-from one-eyed, ruthless Brigadier Ritchie-Hook through Trimmer, an ex-hairdresser on the Aquitania. to the knowledgeable ass, Apthorpe, whose portable jakes provides Waugh with an outlet for numerous excursions into scatology. Hapless Guy inadvertently kills him at the end with the gift of a bottle of whisky when Apthorpe was suffering from fever...