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Although Bamberg said that the Physics Department has put "no direct publish-or-perish pressure on me," and has been "very accommodating" about his teaching interest, he said he thinks his chances of receiving tenure are slim...
...finally. There is an intensely passionate moment near the end of Little Big Man. The very old Old Lodge Skins has lived to see his race perish as the white man under the leadership of General Custer has closed off the West. The old chief knows that's the ball game because while "there's an endless supply of white men, there's always been a limited supply of human beings...
...virtual slave plantation in the 20th century. Cummins takes all kinds of errants and turns them into white-clad "rankers" who work or perish. Toiling from dawn to dusk, they move in a long line across the fields, supervised by a horseman in khaki and five unmounted "shotguns" (guards) who "push" the serfs along. At each corner of the field stands another guard, armed with a high-powered rifle. All the guards are convicts, the toughest at Cummins. Hated by rankers, the trusties are picked for meanness in order to keep them alive off duty. They are killers, armed robbers...
Cheap prices are no longer deceiving better-educated people. Too many now know that the high price paid for quality is the cheapest thing you can buy anywhere. The man who makes it will never perish. What have you got to worry about...
...alike. But by the time that a reasonably coherent estimate of what should be done began to be possible, many of those who had come up through the disappointment of the movement in its infancy had begun saying that no social change was possible, that the entire nation must perish at once rather than continue its unjust rule of much of the globe and its murder of the Vietnamese people...