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...multiplicity of use and image in pre-Columbian goldwork. No two figures are ever the same, and the range of imagery is as profuse as Colombian nature itself: alligators, jaguars, condors, deer, owls, lizards, macaws, and even hallucinogenic mushrooms. To the gaping Spaniards it seemed that anything, among these singular people, could be made of gold, from cooking pots to ceremonial masks and lime holders for coca chewing...
...coups and veerings, breathtaking perfidies, ideological self-betrayals, but with a tenaciously pursued vision in the back ground." Fest believes that "objective factors" in today's politics - presumably such things as international interdependence, vastly increased communications, and resources for popular resistance - would prevent another Hitler from achieving such singular power. A comforting thought, if true. But time is long and virtue fleeting. Men's capacity for evil-as well as for heroism-does not seem to change...
...event, Shapiro is lying both times so why fuss over contradictions? I answered his questions like my fourth-grade teacher, Miss Wynertzky, taught me, politely, using "I" or "we" depending on whemher the singular or plural seemed appropriate. For example, I said that "we" (in this instance, the May 2nd movement), rather than me personally (as Shapiro reports it) initiated the Harvard anti-war movement in '64. Unlike Shapiro's other case studies, me and others in the WSA didn't drop off into a private world after '69. Since "we" have done much political organizing and much discussing things...
...owners in Texas have shown singular flair. For their 1974 plates, 56,000 Texans decided to stamp their characters on their cars, a personality display so fascinating to Houston's Harriett Adams that she has brought out a book on the subject called Who's Who on Texas Highways & Bi-ways. A dermatologist selected SKIN for his plate, a surgeon chose CUT UP, and a dentist picked SAY AHH. The owner of a mattress shop took SLEEP, a salvage contractor used JUNKIE, and a pharmacist chose PILL. Various Volkswagen owners have labeled their beetles...
Private contributions approach 20 per cent of the University budget if government grants are considered as a separate and unchanging part of the budget, George W. Singular, investment analyst in the office of the Treasurer, said yesterday...