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...director, it is art of the most subversive kind. Buñuel wants the audience to see the world as he ultimately forces Mathieu to see it-as an irrational state where logic is a worthless tool. In Obscure Object the director never bothers to explain Conchita's stubborn celibacy or any of his story's other absurdities, for he does not believe that any explanations exist. In Buñuel's view, life's visible events are random and misleading; the sooner we learn to accept the meaninglessness of reality, the sooner we will begin...
...Transvaal, which he has represented ever since. He was named Minister of Justice in Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's Cabinet in 1961 and succeeded his old Stellenbosch teacher as Prime Minister when Verwoerd was assassinated by a demented clerk five years later. Hard-working and singleminded, he personifies the stubborn resolution of the white tribe today...
...pressures for the continuation and constant acceleration of the normal American life are immense. There is not only the stubborn impulse of national habits; in numerous ways the American is stimulated to get more, go more, buy more, use more and enjoy more-all of which usually burns more energy. Peer pressure and advertising also help to inspire countless energy-using activities. Status seeking has not ended in the U.S. simply because books about it are no longer popular. To many, the big car remains an object of envious ad oration, and everywhere Americans still keep up with the Joneses...
When penicillin and other antibiotics were introduced more than a generation ago, doctors felt they had finally won the fight against the most common form of bacterial pneumonia. But the tiny spherical pneumococcus bacteria have proved a stubborn foe. They are showing increasing resistance to drugs of all kinds, and bacterial pneumonia is again on the rise; it takes an estimated 25,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone. The bacteria are also a common cause of damaging middle-ear infections in youngsters and meningitis?a dangerous inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
...John Vorster is shrewd as well as stubborn. Having placated Afrikaners with a show of strength, he might after a suitably triumphant electoral victory release most of the detainees and reduce the threat to the nation's press. (Last week, in a little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...