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...that matter, anyone else participating in a commercial boycott would be prohibited altogether. Says New York Republican Jacob Javits, a strong proponent of the Williams bill: "These people [the Arabs] are trying to coerce Americans into discriminating against other Americans. In other words, they are trying to subvert the very foundations of our republic." Advocates of the Williams bill say that their target is the Arabs' "secondary boycott"-the economic pressure (through the blacklist threat) that is placed on U.S. companies not to trade with Israel. They argue that this makes the Arab boycott of Israel different from...
Such effervescent reportage, unavailable since the demise of Louella Parsons, deadens the volume's central message. Healthy new comestibles are described in terms that instantly subvert the appetite: "The Pfizer Company has produced a product called Sure-Curd that is made from the parasitic fungus Endothia parasitica, a crystalline enzyme that . . . cuts in half the maturation time for Cheddar cheese." Moreover, the book's glossary of labels for meatless-dieters is as discouraging as mock chopped liver: "ovo-lactarians" supplement their plant food with eggs and milk; "granivores" eat only seeds and grains; "fruitarians" consume only fruits; "vegans...
Galileo is about both the unreason able fate of reason and the attempts to thwart and subvert truth. Knowledge and truth, for Brecht, would ultimately be nurtured and fueled by the proletariat, the working man being the true repository of hope. This seems a pretty romantic proposition, especially for a man who had dedicated himself to abolishing every article of romantic faith. But Brecht knew well, and portrayed with ruthless accuracy, the inbred conservatism of power, the stale air of the cloister that can smother the free, creative spirit. What makes Galileo impor tant, finally, is its ironic accounting...
...Ziegler knowingly lied to the press and people of the country and did his best to subvert the First Amendment guarantees of a free press," Wicklein said...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Chile Edward Korry: "...the United States did not seek to pressure, subvert, influence a single member of the Chilean Congress at any time in the entire four years of my stay...