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Residents of Las Vegas profess to be undisturbed by their town's sincity reputation. They euphemize gambling into "gaming," and stress upbeat touches such as the way Craps Dealer Ralph Hicks ends his trick at The Golden Nugget and rushes off to preside as president of the Western High School P.T.A...
...passes for profound. She wrote several scripts (Hiroshima, Man Amour, Moderate Cantabile) for the French New Wave directors and learned to compose prose that reads like camera directions-possibly economical, certainly cheap. All these skills are brought relentlessly to bear in this collection of four short novels that profess to describe four different "modes" of love. They were received with grave respect by the French, who are sometimes difficult for foreigners to understand...
...sudden sabre-rattling stance of the Students for a Democratic Society in protesting "British inaction to uphold democracy" is an astounding feat of double-think. Can anything be more rash, ill-considered, and detrimental to the cause of peace? The SDS admittedly does not profess to be a pacifist group. Nonetheless, the demand for immediate recourse to military action is hardly the initial response to be expected of a body whose origins lie in the sense of moral outrage at the holocaust in Southeast Asia. Surely the SDS is not merely attempting to counter-act the imputation of cowardice...
Thou Shalt Not Kill. For other Quakers, Morrison's act raised questions both as a suicide and as a pacifist protest. Although the Friends profess deep reverence for human life, their doctrine includes no specific condemnation of suicide; most Quakers were content to let God judge Morrison's self-slaughter. And while they could quarrel with his grisly form of martyrdom, there was no disputing that the vast majority of Friends shared Morrison's misgiving about the Viet Nam war, or any other war. Along with the Brethren movement and the Mennonites, the Friends have been...
German economists profess to be unperturbed, contending that the deficit is only temporary and that the country's high level of exports shows that Germany's fabled industry has lost none of its competitiveness in world markets. Furthermore, if West Germany's economy is not quite so miraculous as it once was, it continues this year to be better than that of any other major European country. The highly regarded German Institute for Economic Research predicts that the German economy's real growth rate, up 5% this year, will rise another...