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...Whether by divine power or electrical cosmos, man operates in a highly limited field. He can neither fashion the future nor alter the past. His only power lies in the immediate present, and every effort to extend it ends in failure and frustration . . . Malraux seems to resent it that man fails to qualify as God's private secretary or chief button-pusher for some nuclear Jove. There is some evidence that man is approaching the latter, but unfortunately the only button on the horizon is destructive. Doubtless some Malraux will push the damn thing to prove his importance...
...Philadelphian born and bred, I strongly resent the slur upon my native city contained in the May 16 letter of Dr. Robert W. Blair of Hollywood, in which he advises Correspondent Brown (late of Sweden) to seek sweet surcease of sex in Philadelphia. Every red-blooded Philadelphian from the Navy Yard to Willow Grove, from Tinicum Creek to the Main Line (inclusive) will rise in protest against this foul slander ... Of course it's a well-known fact that things are different over in Camden...
...sovereignty is vested in het volkje [the folk], who vest it in their chosen rulers. We therefore have the right to determine what must be done, and nobody else has received that power from the Creator." Answered Harry Lawrence, leader of the Opposition in Cape Province: "I resent the implication that there is a partnership between God and Strydom-and that Strydom is the senior partner." British South Africans, most of whom stood by indifferently while the Nationalists suppressed the blacks, rose in solemn wrath now that their own liberties were threatened. In the sugar-growing coastal province -of Natal...
...consider it a most unfortunate article. I was nonplused by the stupidity of what you had to say about my "feminine look for the small rounded figure." I resent this ... It may interest you to know that my clothes are sized from 10 to 18 usually, and much of the time to size 20, and that a great majority of the women who buy my clothes are medium height or tall. But I do not cater to the small or rounded figure...
Scott McLeod was "amazed and astonished" by Corsi's testimony. Back on the witness stand, he told the subcommittee: "I had no intimation of any personal ill will while Mr. Corsi was in the department. I resent the vituperative appellation of 'security gang.' It's not a gang; it is the Eisenhower team. I believe in it. and that...