Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank Gerow's remark that it is better for women not to be familiar with penile implants [Dec. 10] is a surprising one. Penile implants are not for self-indulgence, but to aid the male in attaining an erection for intercourse. The other 50% of the intercourse equation is the partner, who must be included if optimum treatment is to be achieved...
...sort of Muslim fundamentalism evident in Iran or Muammar Gaddafi's Libya may confirm a remark by Frantz Fanon, the philosopher of Third World uprisings: the native response to imperial domination is to fall back on what is authentic, what is resistant to modernization. The mosque becomes a symbolic safe haven...
...vegetarians would take amiss John Leo's remark about their preverbal innocence. It might remind a few people of another remark. Something about a little child leading...
...read with astonishment the remark attributed to me (underneath the photograph) in your article in today's Crimson, in which you report my address at the Institute of Politics. I said no such thing as "nothing short of uprisings like those of the Soweto townships in June 1976 will end apartheid." Neither in my address nor in reply to questions (2 speeches) from the floor did I make any such statement. Freedom of the Press is one thing--licence is another. Helen Suzman...
...some failed Pleistocene fish in the swirling currents of democracy, Patrick Henry Bruce cannot have been an easy man to know. He refused to discuss his work, except with like-minded people; since he was sure that there was nobody like him in the art world, not one firsthand remark about his methods or aims has survived. In fits of depression, he destroyed part of his output; much of what he did not burn has been lost, and about half of his surviving late work was altered by a "restorer" in the mid-1960s. In almost every way, Bruce wrote...