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Eventually many of them did time in jail. More important, their evasiveness whetted the committee's-and later Senator Joe McCarthy's-appetite for further proscriptions. A swifter result was the easy intimidation of the film industry, which created a blacklist barring not merely the Ten but hundreds of others from work in Hollywood and in theater, radio and the infant television business. The inquiries also led to the creation of a new and vicious class of entrepreneurs, freelance "experts" in subversion, who made a good thing out of compiling and peddling lists of half-forgotten contributions...
...combination of chromosomes that is conclusive evidence of womanhood), one thing can be predicted with surety. The 8,500 men and the 1,500 women (almost double the number at Mexico) will among them reaffirm the Olympic motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius-setting new records that will be swifter, higher, stronger...
AFTER months of dreary infighting by rule-minded officials, the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, finally and refreshingly gave way to the athletes last week. Sparked by their youthful zest, the games more than lived up to the Olympic motto: "Citius, altius, fortius" (swifter, higher, stronger). Indeed, when the competition ended after ten days and 35 events, the Swiss had skied swifter, the Japanese had jumped higher, the Americans had come back stronger-and the Russians and East Germans had walked off with the lion's share of medals...
...once said "Writing is a craft or profession or rite of stupidity that can bring oblivion swifter than anything else I know." In light of the reaction to "The King God Didn't Save" which definition seems the most accurate...
...football, then, the spectator sympathetically participates in a heightened form of existence. During the brief hours of the game he sees the base matter of everyday life lifted up, purified, clarified, intensified: idealized figures, stronger, swifter, more cunning than ordinary men, fight a bruising battle in a make-believe microcosm (the stadium as ideal universe). Football is a synthesis of illusion and reality. A good football game is real enough to involve the spectator, illusory enough to liberate him. It creates a series of what Sartre called "privileged moments" -a temporary and imaginary redemption...