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...fact, an arbitrary conglomeration of hostile tribes. The Ibos are motivated by a principle, too: self-preservation. As the Oxford-educated Ojukwu told his people after the fall of Port Harcourt: "We shall all have to return to our villages and homes, if necessary behind enemy lines, and torment and harass the federal troops at every turn; we are fighting this dreadful war not for conquest but survival...
...Vice President), works in the mission's accounting department. Bo is widely read, an art lover, an ex-journalist, and his French is so polished that he once taught the language. He likes to quote Balzac, but his favorite aphorism, from an ancient Vietnamese tome, is: "Do not torment yourself if your virtues are not recognized, but pay more attention to not ignoring those of others...
...Negro churches began in the south as meetings in the plantation fields, where slaves bewailed their torment in song and preaching. Although barred from joining white churches, Negroes were visited by white evangelists, who instilled in them the fervor and faith of oldtime religion.* The Negro accepted the doctrines but brought to the spirit of worship an intensity arising from repression. Hymns reflected both the African origin of the Negro and the agony of his existence. Sermons emphasized the vision of beatitude in the promised land; the congregation-condemned to submission and silence elsewhere-was free here to give public...
...think Taylor and Burton are bad in real movie magazine life, you should see them in Doctor Faustus. The film wastes what must have been a lavish budget and ignores the essence of Marlowe's play: Faustus's psychological torment...
Conquering Sex. The magazine is mainly concerned with the inch-along's emotional (read sexual) needs. There is scarcely an anxiety that may torment her that has not been fully aired in the pages of Cosmopolitan, and she may even have picked up some new ones. Articles tell her how to get married, how to get divorced, how to be a successful mistress, how to make a man of her husband, how to avoid sexual entanglements with Daddy, how to make the most of "brief encounters." There is no sexual problem, apparently, that is not conquerable. "Shy girls...