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Placing the burden of stopping the "rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism," on students, Heston asked, "who will defend the core value of academia if you supposed soldiers of free thought and expression lay down your arms and plead 'don't shoot...
Amis' outsize aptitude for mimicry runs rampant in What Happened to Me on My Holiday. It is written entirely in a dialect that sounds like some form of New Yorkese ("We grabbed zum lunj and then went oud to Lang Island in a big goach galled the Jidney"). Not for the starchy or easily offended, these exercises in absurdity showcase Amis' extravagant talents and splashy intellect. But we must also say that a little Heavy Water goes a long...
...People are definitely in each other's business more than they are in their own," he says. "The gossip is just more rampant...across groups and across the entire House community...
...Already the speculation is rampant about who's running, who's vulnerable, and what new slates or other political affiliations might emerge," said local politico Robert Winters in his city council newsletter, The Cambridge Civic Journal...
...busy re-enacting the Creation in the past few years that Americans, at least, no longer pay much notice. If genetic engineers had envisioned a quick conquest of the world, however, they have experienced a sharp comeuppance in Europe, where fears about the unknown consequences of "Frankenstein foods" are rampant. So suspicious are Europeans that they are virtually ready to take up pitchforks on behalf of Mother Nature's return...