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Orwell's primary autobiographical concern was the development of his socialist tendencies. Not unnaturally he looked to his marginal class background, and humiliating status as a scholarship boy at very snobbish schools. It is a vein that can be mined only so far, so Orwell generally diverts his energies from explaining his personal disorientation, disenchantment and dismay. Instead he evocatively and intuitively explores how the situations that affected him came to be. The man had a distaste for social theory that matched his descriptive ability, and the result was a socialist with politics based on "decency" and most often defined...
Implicit in the mood is the conviction that should he be "diddled" again in Paris, yet another blitz will be ordered. If Hanoi does not resume the talks in the proper vein, says a source close to the President, "he'll turn it up full blast again." The U.S. expects Hanoi in particular...
Bearing out this contention is the fact that there is a growing black market for methadone. In many cities, it is being sold by pushers to "virgin" drug abusers seeking the orgasmic reaction, almost as intense as the heroin "rush," that methadone produces when injected into a vein rather than taken orally. Besides, though complicated to manufacture, methadone is cheaper than heroin (perhaps $20 instead of $50 a day) partly because big crime has not-as yet -moved...
...Russells hands Gaudier Brzeska's life history has become the means to exploit in a richer vein Hollywood drivel about driven genius. His Graudier Brzeska is Artiste Extraordinaire; sacreligious, spontaneous ironic, innocent; ahead his time and shunned for flouting truth that shock prevailing social mores Russell films a disconnected string of melodramatic conceits to give us this bravura story of genius martyred through the neglect of bourgeois complacency...
...communities of the population." When he was chief rabbi of the army, Goren found a way for Orthodox soldiers to drive jeeps or operate equipment such as radar on the Sabbath by pointing out the soldier's compelling duty to preserve Israel's security. In a like vein, says Goren,"if it is essential [for an Orthodox policeman] to control traffic on the Sabbath, then the way must be found to do it within Halakhah...