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...breakdown of language into "nadsat," a jumble of portmanteau constructions ("He looked a malenky bit poogly when he viddied the four of us"). To Burgess, language is the breath of civilization. Cut it short and society suffocates. That is an insight worth pondering. For if the world is to resist the nadsat future, readers and writers of both sexes must resist onefully any meaningless neologisms. To do less is to encourage another manifestation of prejudice-against reason, meaning and eventually personkind itself...
...sorrows. The story of this one French town during this one particular nightmare pulses more deeply than the matter-of-fact recollections of pain and endurance its citizens tell. It reminds those who will listen of the atrocities committed in the name of the Noble Cause, that few will resist and most will acquiesce, then forget...
...ultimate goal for the believer. He feels that conventional psychiatry's general lack of success is due to its essentially non-experiential, negative approach to mental health. The idea that the simultaneous experience of two opposite feelings--neurosis--is wrong causes psychiatrists to encourage the patient "to resist neurotic conflicts," rather than understand and assimilate them. The analogy to political action is equally revealing, for by regarding other modes of government as different and therefore wrong, the effort to eradicate or deny the other philosophies automatically negates the possibility of peace. The key is integration based on trust, not disintegration...
...Ukrainians, for instance, or because of the fact that thousands of nameless Russians are in labor camps, or even because of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The conservatives who voted for the amendment are hardly more consistent. While usually ready enough to put pressure on the Soviet Union, they resist similar actions proposed by liberals against right-wing regimes, for instance, in Greece or Brazil...
...argued that separate cubicles would fragment the school," Baldwin says. "When we suggested our open studio idea in 1968, it was enthusiastically received. But after the design was finalized each department began to resist the concept...