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...think so. In retrospect, I know the three of us, plus the Vice President, who meets with us on all occasions -none of us would undo what we had done, nor would we have approached the issue in a more timid fashion...
...Chairman until the early 1960s, Teng disagreed with Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, which marked a disastrous setback for China, particularly in agriculture. In the Leap's aftermath, Teng, who was then general secretary of the Party, introduced a gradualist agricultural reform program designed to undo the damage. In a 1962 speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long...
Bicyclists, oil up your gears, smear on the tanning cream and undo those 20-lb. unbreakable locks...
...book, Gardner notes that pseudo-scientific theories are sometimes the work of brilliant men who can construct quite intricate puzzles for others to undo. Ives Goddard of the Smithsonian Institution makes the same point about Fell's work: "Fell spends years putting together his information...He's constructed an elaborate puzzle for us to solve...Recently I spent a couple of hours with a reporter and we looked up several of these words [from Fell's lists comparing ancient European languages and modern Indian tongues]...they can all be refuted, but in the end it's a waste of effort...
...rather wishes she had been born into-her television set. James is a puritan: a beekeeper, a man who splits elm at 20° below zero, a myth maker whose hero is Ethan Allen, not the Fonz. James hates Snoopy, Coca-Cola, California, astronauts (they are there to "undo him") and, above all, television. One night James takes out his 12-gauge shotgun and blasts away at Sally's picture tube as if it were the devil's eye; when she objects, he chases her upstairs brandishing a length of stovewood...