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...here a clear distinction must be made. I am not grotesque as a Romantic, who by these terms wishes to arouse a feeling of horror or peculiarity, but a grotesque as once Aristophanes or Swift was grotesque; out of the necessity at the same time to produce a pamphlet and a work of art." Grotesque is a good word for The Quarry; its subject matter is macabre and death-directed in the Duerrenmatt tradition. And though its manner is so schematic that the book turns into more of a pamphlet than a work of art, it provides an absorbing...
...with wasting the money of a poor starving nation. I charge him with the neglect of the defense of the country against the aggression of Communist China. I charge him with having lent his support to totalitarian regimes against the will of the people." Kripalani supporters have circulated a pamphlet titled "Krishna Menon-Danger to India" that calls Menon a "crypto-Communist...
...this point, the pamphlet's glossary becomes very useful. It includes such terms as MEGATON, GROUND ZERO, and A-BOMB and H-BOMB (two "popular terms for what should correctly be called nuclear weapons"), all of which can enliven cocktail conversation at survival parties and make their employer appear very erudite. For obvious security reasons, certain other useful words and phrases were omitted. For example: Ja amerikanskij proletarij (I am an American proletarian), Da zdrstvuet krasnoye osvobozhdenye (Long live the red liberation), and tovarishch (comrade...
...pamphlet closes with a final warning to those who think they can get easy federal aid for shelter construction. No one can take advantage of the government like that. Action is the prerogative of state, local, and individual initiative. The Founding Fathers did not provide the Federal Government with authority to act in matters of fallout prevention, and those "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people...
...fallout protection is no joke. But this pleasant little pamphlet, by showing us how easy survival really is, offers us solid reassurance that when it comes to nuclear war we can thwart the Commies every time. They're even helping us do it. To begin with (and this is what the pamphlets' authors posit their entire civil defense program on, the enemy apparently plans to use only five-megaton "nuclear weapons." ("There are much larger weapons which could do more damage, but the damage from larger weapons does not increase in direct ratio to the size of the weapons...