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...central value of Western society is the fanatical faith in science. Therefore those who possess "scientific" knowledge constitute the elite of Western intellectual culture...
...weapons on Sadat's shopping list were tanks ("It is not logical that we cross the desert on rubber tires"), torpedo boats and electronic equipment. Since the Russians refused to supply Egypt with these items, Sadat said, the new strategy was for Egypt to manufacture them. "We must possess the arms factories so my will may not be dictated by friends or non-friends...
Wald's Speech entitled. "To Re-possess America," was given at Kent State Last May to initiate the Lectureship for Peaceful Change series established there in recognition of the four students who were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen...
...Braque's figures lack personality, his still lifes possess it. One finds a whole cast of characters: tables, for instance, run the gamut from the stolid turned legs under The Pink Tablecloth to the drowned and tilted marine landscape of The Billiard Table, 1944-52, to the iron legs of The Gueridon, 1935, flexing gaily like Isadora Duncan at practice...
...QUEST for love and acceptance belongs to Billy Tully. Once the object of the crowds' adulation. Once married to a beautiful woman who deserted him when he started losing, he still carries the picture of his former wife in his wallet. To again have his stature and to literally possess this woman are the objects of Tully's persistent, but futile dreaming. All of the sadness of the movie is echoed in his words: "Some women love you for yourself, but it doesn't last long...