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...Reagan desires if the economies of the industrialized West are sapped by high unemployment rates. Said one French diplomat on the eve of the summit: "If unemployment continues to grow across the Continent, what is a jobless youth to think? He is bound to think that it is ab surd to spend billions in national wealth on armaments...
...predictably, chose to hear only the contentious half and issued a blast at the U.S. through Pravda. If the difference between the Vance and Brzezinski views were not enough, Moscow must have been astonished-and delighted-when Ambassador Andrew Young chose this of all weeks to venture the ab surd idea that the U.S. had "hundreds, perhaps even thousands of ... political prisoners...
...Increasing specialization of knowledge, the splintering of old disciplines into many new ones, the rise of the masses, the decline of the West and close encounters of the surd kind...
...mystique as well. Neither really modern nor really traditional, neither daring nor conservative, the house spills over with the wealth and the glitter and the grand irrationalities of myth and legend that together form the compelling unreality of opera itself, a dream world of the Theater of the Surd...
...life sentence for most other types. Thus a man could still be hanged if he stole from as well as killed his victim, or if he killed a policeman or a prison official, or more than one person, but not for other forms of murder. This resulted in ab surd situations where a killer who slew little children got away with imprisonment; yet if he took as little as a shilling from his victims, he was hanged...