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...mice the dynamics of the struggle are special: the guns fire and "Marie saw sugar balls landing in the serried ranks of the mice, who were spattered with white powder which made them feel very sheepish." A battery of artillery firing jawbreakers does the most damage. And the mice stain the bright red jackets of the hussars by firing foul smelling pellets...
...Ladispoli roundup. In gratitude for the deft police work, Ambassador Maxwell Rabb paid a 40-minute call on Rome's chief of police, Marcello Monarca. Said Rabb: "Your country has again demonstrated that it is in the vanguard of the fight against subversive and terrorist elements that stain the world with blood...
...point, therefore, must be that Harvard should stock on principle if it is tainted however slightly by the stain of doing business in South Africa. This is a troublesome argument. It suggest that morality lies in trying to avoid all contact with the wrongs of the world and that it is better to sell one's stock and simply turn away form the injustices of South Africa than continue working as a sharcholder to persuade companies to improve the wages and conditions of their Black employees...
...would think, What do you think I'm doing?" or Vegas: "Listen, when I was a kid, the neighborhood I grew up in? It was so dirty I'd sit out in the sun for two hours and get a nice stain." But it is terse, credible and consistent with the speakers, odious or otherwise...
...formative experience was in the thirties and World War II, particularly the years when the Nazi stain spread over Europe, and when the Nazis occupied France. This has kept me with a lifelong, perverse preoccupation with world wars; and again, to make my biases very clear. I do not like them. So while I am not a pacifist, Christian or otherwise--the experience of the Thirties, so perfectly distilled in Ionesco's Rhinoceros, rules this out--I have a very strong belief that no war is very often better than war (indeed, a world war was avoidable as late...