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Psychological explanations are as satisfactory, or unsatisfactory, as any others. It is possible that at least some of the terrorists are simply psychotics. It may be true that, as I.F. Stone wrote about the Weatherman radicals in the U.S., "the ultimate menace they fear is their own secret selves in their own parents. This is what they are acting out on the stage of national politics." The parents, in West Germany's case, carry the whole burden of the moral ambiguity in the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) that rebuilt the country after 1945. Some thing in the very robustness...
...charged publicly that they were victims of pressure and job discrimination while at Harvard during the early '50s. Both were then former members of the Communist Party. Since those allegations were made, several scholars have proposed that Harvard open its records to an independent researcher who could determine the true history of the University's actions during those years. Furthermore, several historians and sociologists of education have requested access to those files for research purposes...
...America that I can think of." Or try this assertion on for size, if not downright smugness: "The growth of rock & roll journalism, which paralleled the growth of rock & roll, is a fascinating subject in itself...Nowhere has it been practiced better than in Rolling Stone..." it's true that Wenner's publication is several cuts above glossy groupie rags like Creem or Crawdaddy, but the self-evident really doesn't warrant repetition...
...memory and observation, Zeman, 32, crowds a barren stage with children growing up, leaving, marrying and having children of their own, of a husband's ordeal by alcoholism and his conquest of it, of Emily's witnessing her small son being crushed by a truck. The true protagonists are pain, humor, fury, the terrors of aloneness, a remembrance of good sex past, and an abiding perception of love amid its ruins...
Each of the three musketeers carried an unbeaten slate into the MIT contest, their third match of the season. Each of the three, at one point in their MIT bouts looked like they would lose their perfect record. And each of the three, in true musketeerian fashion, came from behind when they had to and managed to have the last stab...