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...thousands of Portuguese would not have taken to the streets, no longer afraid of the fascist police who'd tortured dissenters for 46 years. In the same way, getting rid of Nixon is a necessary first step toward real change--not a guarantee that it would come, but a sine...
...Most of rock humor seems securely tied up in the double-whammy bags of dope and dirty words. Dope naturally supplies the subject matter. The dirty words, no longer reserved as final zingers, are strung right along through almost every sentence-alternating, of course, with the word man, the sine quanon of the species...
...first the marriage seemed to break apart--Vita fled to France with her lover and Harold resorted to the British Navy to bring her back. But on the basis of mutual tolerance, the two settled down to a marriage their son describes as idyllic, whose sine qua non was the absolute freedom of both partners to enjoy sexual adventures with other men and women. Even when their outside infatuations were deepest, they couldn't think of each other merely as "friends;" of course they could not think of each other as lovers; they could only be described as husband...
...word-of being occupied. The argument that this occupied territory serves as a protective buffer for Israel-that was the argument of Hitler. What we're asking for is very simple: that our territorial integrity and the rights of the Palestinians be respected. These two elements are the sine qua non conditions for peace in the Middle East...
...other hand, hunting is a sine qua non for the intellectual as well: "To hunt for an idea can never be fully understood-or fully practiced-by those who have not hunted game...