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...case Boo Radley should come out. Boo is the village loony, and he hasn't been seen for 15 years. Never mind. Every child in town knows that he stands six foot six and has a long jagged scar on his face. His teeth are few, yellow and rotten. His eyes pop, and most of the time he drools. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch, and whenever an azalea bush dies in Maycomb everybody knows why-Boo breathed...
When man gives up the struggle for self, he is on the road to giving up reason, freedom and then sanity. What is frightening and "rotten" for Fromm is not primarily the characteristics of middle, upper or lower classes but the general symptom of avoiding the pain of employing reason-the ease with which we turn the Kremlin into a menagerie of monsters devoid of understandable, recognizable human motivations and the West into the faultless frame of reference by which all else is judged...
...with all these treatments, says Food Biologist Karakian ("Kutty") Bedrosian, is that they fail to take account of the fact that the produce itself wants to die. "The problem today is not bacteria, but to control or inhibit the enzyme activity by which fresh food ripens and then becomes rotten." Satisfied that modern techniques of refrigeration and decontamination are more than equal to handling harmful bacteria, Kutty went to work to cure fresh food's tendency toward self-destruction...
...short of murder. Outside on the windy steppes the average winter temperature was 17° below. Inside the barracks, the ceilings were always coated with frost. Every day the prisoners were sent out to do senseless, back-breaking labor. Meals were always the same watery gruel with chunks of rotten fish (Shukhov was jeered because he refused to eat fish eyes when they were floating free in the soup). The guards made the prisoners undress outside to be frisked, beat them with birch clubs, threw any who talked back into a barely heated "cell," where a ten-day sentence meant...
...suspected from Fromm's earlier writings that he was spellbound by Marx. Fromm has a secure place in American middle-class society; he teaches at New York University and is required reading at innumerable colleges. But Marx apparently has taught him to believe that middle-class life is rotten to the core...