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...your story "Slaughter on Seventh Avenue" [March 12] you say "many women are still shying away from dresses and skirts of any sort, and playing it safe fashionwise by choosing pantsuits...
...later: "I married a handsome face, and did you ever try to live just with a handsome face?" She tried for 18 years, during which she and her family withstood more than a troubled marriage. In 1927, revolutionary Chinese troops invaded Nanking in an orgy of looting and the slaughter of foreigners. A Chinese peasant woman Pearl had befriended offered her and her two children a hiding place in her own small hut. Said Pearl later: "I too have had that strange and terrible experience of facing death because of my color. The only reason that I was not killed...
...weak a word for Jack's foils. With the force of a Miltonic devil, he strides to his inherited seat in the House of Lords. At a fox hunt Jack incenses the party with a bellow for a hangman's society and leads them on to the slaughter with "Dem Bones" -- the first instance where the vaudevillian flavor leaves a sour after-taste (that is made still less delectable by a tasteless little shot of the fox, smugly relieving himself on a tree trunk. Is this Jack pissing in the face of society...
...then, in two terrible weeks, the terrorism broke out again more savagely than ever. Once again Northern Ireland seemed to be drifting toward civil war, its population helplessly caught between two bands of extremists who practiced slaughter in the name of their religion...
...Terence Cardinal Cooke called the opinion "a tragic utilitarian judgment" and added that "judicial decisions are not necessarily sound moral decisions." James Lenehan, chairman of a Connecticut Right to Life committee, wondered "how the Supreme Court can at one time rule against capital punishment and then allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn children." Georgia's Right to Life chairman, Joe Bowman, was reminded "of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said that although he may have a beating heart and a functioning brain and be biologically human, the black man was not a legal person." More mildly, Bishop William...