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...chaplains, the precise spot where the catheters entered the arms. Of course, the dramatic content of the events was in inverse proportion to the excitement of the settings. In Clark's case, society asked him, as Dylan Thomas asked his father in a villanelle, not to succumb to death placidly, but to "rage, rage against the dying of the light." In the case of Brooks, society found a way for him to "go gentle into that good night...
...almost sly awareness of other men's motives and how they might be levered to advance his own cause, and, above all, a sense of self-irony. He seems always to be keeping a wary, testing eye on himself, conscious of his own failings, watchful that he not succumb to the vanity of power. Kingsley's performance suggests that Gandhi's ability to lead derived not from the fact that he was different from other men but from his awareness that he was so like them, with only the force of his will to set him apart...
...suffering from a painful hip injury sustained last year, the Prime Minister hobbled to the rostrum at the Pierre Hotel, received a thunderous ovation and then told a United Jewish Appeal gathering that "the Israelis are going to behave as the Czechs in 1938 did not. We shall not succumb to friendly pressure if anyone tries to exercise it on us." Speaking earlier to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Begin proclaimed that Israel had acted militarily to make sure that "not one Katyusha [rocket] will ever again fall on our people...
...talks. The economic summits of recent years have shown that growing domestic difficulties have made these meetings more and more a forum for mutual recriminations in which various governments try to shift their responsibility for national aberrations onto others. Hence it is to be feared that European governments will succumb to the temptation at the Versailles summit to mask their own economic failures by launching massive attacks against the U.S. policy of high-interest rates. It is therefore not necessary to possess the gift of foresight to predict that the meeting of the leaders of the seven most important democratic...
...blast wave is the main destroyer. Detonation in midair has made radioactive fallout negligible, and people close enough for immediate doses of radiation first succumb to other injuries. More than 250,000 Detroiters were within 2½miles of ground zero; nearly all are now dead. Pedestrians and drivers are incinerated in a molten slag of cars. Skyscrapers burst and fall. Nearly 20 sq. mi. of the city are leveled...