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...active member of the moderate Memorial Church group. Zorza must certainly have gained insights and observations that could contribute to a sounder understanding of why the strike failed to gather momentum and fell apart the way it did. Most of that insight, however, is forever buried beneath his swollen, badly cliched rhetoric...
...cannot. Tyranny, like hell, may not be conquered at all. At least not by us as we are. We have had the life sucked out of us-gigantic blood-swollen ticks sucking at our hearts and heads. The statue with the big torch has burned us to ashes. We can no longer love nor feel nor even want nor hate. We will have to sink back into the clay again in order to form ourselves as men. That is how I will begin. Clay first, then...
...traced by war-and are maintained by military strength. No really independent state has ever long survived without military power and a willingness to use it. CULTURE AND THE ARTS. "At all times," says Andreski, "weapons were the most advanced gadgets which any civilization has possessed." More important, states swollen by conquest can support a leisure class without which, the author maintains, science and the arts might never have arisen. He points out that technological progress makes its greatest strides under the prod of war, from the stirrup designed by 2nd century Asian warrior horsemen to the sophisticated creations...
...reeking dumps and an ugly bulldozed countryside. Improved technology and advancing production have made life increasingly complex, frantic and wearing. Complaints are rolling in -not only from youthful rebels but also from the supposedly silent majority Middle Americans, to say nothing of scientists and politicians. Urbanologists fret about cities swollen to dinosaur dimensions that defy efficient management and create immense social costs through crime, congestion and drug addiction. Ecologists raise the specter 'in a planet made uninhabitable by the pressures of a rising population. Some environmentalists go so far as to advocate a no-growth society; they call upon...
Although the occupation of University Hall was "brought about by a small number of the revolutionaries against the wishes of the majority." their forces "were greatly swollen by many young people who were genuinely and seriously concerned about the professed issues advanced...