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...emergence of Soviet hegemonism is the peculiar outcome of the developments following World War II. For a long time, as the United States became bogged down in wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Soviet Union strove to expand its strength, narrowed the gap in economic development between itself and the U.S. and immensely enhanced its military power. It achieved parity with the United States in nuclear armaments and even surpassed it in conventional weaponry...
...adventurous, and--most importantly--deceptive. It came into being as a result of the degeneration of the first socialist country in the world. This allows it to exploit Lenin's prestige and flount the banner of "socialism" to deprive other peoples of their right to self-determination. This duplicity, peculiar to Soviet hegemonism, increases the special danger it poses as a hegemonic super-power. If there is one metaphor to describe the Soviet Union, it is that of a "wolf in sheep's clothing...
...MERLIN--the real central character of this film--Nicol Williamson thoroughly enjoys himself, savoring his every line with a sly insouciance. With an amazing array of inflections and twitches. Williamson makes his wizard a peculiar combination of magician, clown, and guardian angel. His consistent brilliance gives the film its only consistency...
North Korea. There have been changes of the guard in East Germany and other places, but there has never been a change in North Korea since the end of World War II. This is unique on earth. If you want to understand how peculiar this situation is, ask yourself this question: Could Brezhnev or even Mao Tse-tung himself nominate his own son to be his successor and get away with...
...offered between a cheapened communitarian ideal and the grandiose self." Channing, a man who had believed in the law through most of his life, began to lose faith, suspicious of a legal system that sheltered the madness and cruelty of slavery. Channing's denouncement of the barbarism of the "peculiar institution" was virtually an "antinomian utterance," according to Delbanco. He spoke out publicly for civil disobedience, and attacked the law more ferociously than anything else he had chosen to criticize...