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...heads of the F.L.N. [National Liberation Front] contend that they are the real representatives of the peoples concerned, simply because they kill more people than the others. In order to ensure themselves of this monopoly, they have undertaken the destruction of other parties in the purest totalitarian tradition. In the interior of the country the bands fight at gunpoint over control of the sectors that bring in the fattest dividends in pillage and gunrunning. In the first ten months of 1957 alone, about 600 Algerian Moslems have been killed in France and more than 2.000 wounded, victims of other Algerian...
...lost-the-only-man-I've-ever-had, and I'm-covered-with-moss school of thing." She knows just how she wants to sound: "It's like nudes in art; you can have them Manet's way, in their purest form, or you can have them Petty style." Pat is hot after that big Manet style...
...monumental structure of Cezanne's Portrait of Jules Peyron and Rocks at Bimemus, wedded with all the warmth of bristling light, comprises the quintessence of this classic vision. And an early, analytical-cubist Picasso landscape, with its shimmering greys and silvers, shows how formal structure at its purest and most abstract can be fully as moving as more extroverted emotion...
...purest coincidence the Forrestal paid her call the same day Lebanon's Parliament voted 30 to i in support of the government's decision to accept Eisenhower-plan aid. (Just before the vote five deputies resigned their seats in protest.) The carrier's first presence in an Arab port was directly relevant to the tortured processes of side-choosing going on in two neighboring Arab lands...
...watching is the worst. For as the watcher stares down his gunsights into the bright summer grasses, and the sun and the wind play mazily together in the barley and field flowers, and the watcher goes on waiting and waiting for death to leap at him out of the purest loveliness, there comes a moment when any averagely sensitive person will begin to get that cold sensation along his spine, and to realize a little how a fighting man feels when he is buying a Section Eight...