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Khrushchev wrote: "You threaten us with war...We must not succumb to light-headedness and petty passions, regardless of whether elections are forth-coming in one country or another...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: JFK Library Documents Illuminate Brinksmanship | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

...skinned rhinos. Originally the beasts are an anomaly in the town. But they become more and more appealing to the people. The human beings yearn to become rhinoceroses. The comfort of conformity becomes more attractive than the responsibilities of individualism. So one by one, the people of the town succumb to the lure of the mindless pact. Even Stanley's saccharine girl friend Daisy (Karen Black) and his best friend John (Zero Mostel) go over to the side of the rhinos. Only Stanley resists. He becomes the anomaly...

Author: By Marni Sandweiss, | Title: Pale Pachyderm | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

...Arab nations themselves, who have delightedly realized how vulnerable European countries are. The eyes of the world are now on America, waiting to see how America conducts itself through the oil crisis. I only hope it will be courageous enough not to forsake its conscience for worldly comforts and succumb to Arab pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1973 | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...doubts against her certitude, his emotions against her coolness, attempting to wring from her a confession of responsibility. But Lesley evades everything, seeing it only as some game, and not even a macabre one at that. The confrontation, as it must be, is a stand-off: Nicky refuses to succumb to his sister's inhumane logic but neither does he press ahead for any definitive verdict against...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Lesley Evades Everything | 10/5/1973 | See Source »

...TIMES and The Post are not perfect. They sometimes succumb to the same shoddiness that plagues the rest of the newspaper world, and some of their coverage is just as inaccurate. The Times, for example, insists to this day upon calling the Vietnamese National Liberation Front the "Viet Cong," even though the term is considered highly insulting in Vietnam. A newspaper striving honestly for objectivity would report the news objectively and evenly, leaving its insults for the editorial page...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: The State of the American Press | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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