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Moreover, the current debate, if not always enlightening, is healthy. Just as there are cycles of public upheaval and quietude on great issues like nuclear weapons, so too with religion. It is natural that Americans should periodically vent their feelings about so powerful, though often subterranean, an influence as religion. And then agree to retire to their respective churches for a little meditation, penance perhaps, until the next round...
Throughout On the Yankee Station, Boyd's aspiring lechers either vent or invent grievances all the way from California to France and from Africa to Viet Nam. Yet however exotic the horizon, the foreground is always grungy. The sea along the Côte d'Azur is "filled with weed and feces from an untreated sewage outlet"; Cameroon is "a stinking, sweaty country," of insects and imbroglios; California beaches are littered with derelicts and bums; and just about everywhere, there are washed-out blonds in greasy cafés or easy women who turn out to be hard...
...Charlie has had a fascination with this topic since the beginning of this term--when he made it an issue at the North House Committee and subsequently came to a meeting of the full Council to vent his views. Unfortunately, Charlie's zealous instincts are as misplaced as his arithmetic is bad ($3808 is not one-twelfth of this year's $70,000 budget...
...lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous peasants by resorting to extortion or exploitation...
...final distinctive features of the launch pad are three massive flame ducts, each 50 ft. high and 70 ft. wide, that will vent the tremendous energy released during lift-offs. Seven seconds before takeoff, an underground pipe 10 ft. in diameter will flood the ducts in less than 30 seconds with about half a million gallons of water. The water will be stored in two tanks. The 6,000° F heat produced by the shuttle will be tamed by the liquid, generating huge billows of steam from the ducts during and after the launch. At Cape Canaveral, the vents...