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...peasants could have saved the monarchy if only they had been politically aware," Pipes said, "but they have no notion of the state or the nation. They know only the joint family, the village, and the Orthodox community." Pipe's condescension towards the peasants makes this heavily-documented section one of the most interesting and infuriating in the book. And the condescending tone becomes mixed with hatred at the entrance of what Pipes finds the most disappointing group of all: the radical intelligentsia...
...concern for working women's problems that animates the film, much as the finale in My Man Godfrey negates Powell's indignation at the rich and powerful. For us the tragedy lies not in Clara's failure to escape the grueling routine of scullery and assembly line through a pipe dream, but in her failure to learn anything which might help her change it when she returns...
...ship's hull. Next the barge opened its sea cocks until it had taken on enough water to sink to a depth of 150 ft. It was maneuvered directly beneath the Glomar Explorer's moon pool and held in place by stanchions from the mother ship. Pipe from the ship reached down to the barge and attached itself to the giant grappling claws, which resembled a series of four or six interconnected ice tongs hanging from a long platform. Then the ship's crew began to feed length after length of pipe through the hole...
...some invisible flag had been raised at headquarters. There are the same old slogans, press releases and speeches about honoring commitments and about other nations losing faith in the United States if we do not plunge on. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger last week was puffing his pipe and weighing "the dry season," against "the wet season." His computers were spinning out statistics about the percentages of the land and the people controlled by the Communists. General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dispatched Major General John R.D. Cleland on a new fact-finding mission...
...bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical peeps. Few attorneys dared to pipe back publicly. So for twelve years Judge Cannon presided as a choice gossip topic...