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...arouse emotion and indignation and to make us curse the technical advancements that gave us the tremendous power of the atom. Yet it has been several years since the flood of writing and protest began, and the nuclear threat is still very much with us. Can we ever get rid of the bombs, or at least of the imminent threat they pose? Proposals for world government have resurfaced lately as a possible answer, but, given the success of the League of Nations and the United Nations and the current state of international relations, a move towards any such world organization...
...unfortunate that Jackson has used terms that have insulted the Jewish people. But he has apologized, pointing out that all of us need to work to rid ourselves of the prejudices we harbor...
...would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental death. No one is exactly happy that Leon is gone, but neither does anybody think it worthwhile to make a fuss over the manner of his departure...
...guerrillas represent two different tactics of Communism. The first one to get into power will call the other, and together they will give the country to the U.S.S.R." When I tell him that Señor Duarte assured me that "if ARENA wins the elections, they will get rid of us all," D'Aubuisson sneers. "They are scared to death because they know we are going to beat them." The words fear and guts are very important in the major's vocabulary. "The guerrillas' intention is to capture me alive. Two guerrillas who were in charge...
Sottsass created Memphis in late 1980, he says, to "get rid of institutional rhetoric." The replacement? What he calls "suburban slang." The name appropriately comes from rock: Bob Dylan's Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again happened to be playing the night Sottsass crystalized the project with half a dozen young followers. His oddly hued, plastic-laminate-covered Carlton room divider, whose bookshelves extend at eccentric angles, is intentionally haphazard-looking. Since books tend to settle on an incline anyway, reasoned Sottsass, why force them to stand at attention? With a core committee in Milan, Sottsass...