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Right now the government keeps its influence over the economy by chucking $86 billion into missiles and tanks. It can't put this money into poverty programs because billions of dollars just handed over to the poor would ruin our whole competitive ethic (this is what everyone in Congress thinks anyway; and of course, it isn't true. But unfortunately they decide...
...traditional American lynching" on a long-suffering black man (Julius Harris). There is some show-stopping (if irrelevant) footwork by a trio of pretty chicklets billed as Extraordinary Spooks. And Frances Foster has a delicious bit as a highfalutin Whitey lover who is afraid that a lynching will ruin her daughter's debut, which is slated to be "written up in the paper near the society page." But many prefer him dead-the church for ritual, the whites for souvenirs, an African tribeswoman for dinner...
...This book has no characters. They would ruin it. You can't have 'personalities' competing with a book like this...
...curious can see from Gallup's notes that in the much quoted line, "These fragments I have shored against my ruin," the words "shored against" originally read "spelt into." This was probably Eliot's own emendation, but other alterations are clearly the work of the man who looked over the master's shoulder. "Dogaral" (doggerel), noted Ezra on one passage, and Eliot humbly struck the offending words from his text. But Eliot sometimes balked. Ezra had condemned Eliot's description of a nightingale's "inviolable voice" as "too purty" (pretty), but Eliot seems to have...
...THAT we have established that Harvard has some great things to ruin, we must answer the question, Why ruin? In the existential phenomenological context of things (the only way we approach anything in the sporting world), destroying has some magnificent benefits that accomplishing cannot touch. First, destroying is final and absolute. Once all these Yale streaks and things are destroyed, they cannot happen again. Second, and most important, destroying is a wonderfully exhilarating thing to do--it is mischievous and healthy, It moves the spirit and the soul--it is direct, concrete and eternal...