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...incarceration of freethinking, healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder. It is a variant of the gas chamber, but it is an even more cruel variation, for the tortures of those being held are more vicious and prolonged...
...remembered that I had read in school that communism is where everyone has to wear the same thing and everyone has to eat the same thing. All that I knew about revolution was from the two pictures in my eleventh grade history textbook: the first of a vicious, almost horned Robespierre squeezing the blood from a human heart into a cup, and the second of an elegant, repentant, white-haired Louis XVI, praying before the guillotine. I also remembered the "World" section of the Sun Diego Union-Evening Tribune from one Sunday in 1957, when I was eight...
...repeatedly raised the specter of a "bloc vote" that would "control politics in Alabama for the next 50 years" if he lost. When his audience seemed less sophisticated, George spelled it out: "the black bloc vote." His newspaper ads bluntly urged whites to "vote for your own kind." Vicious rumors also were spread-apparently without Wallace's approval and certainly without any foundation-about the sex lives of Brewer, his wife and two daughters. Mrs. Brewer broke into tears in a Montgomery department store after hearing some of the stories...
...tremendous demand for Black Studies created a feverish, and sometimes vicious, competition for black faculty members. Because Harvard's program had begun looking for instructors late in the spring of 1969 there was some concern that it might not get top-quality personnel...
Close Vote. Nowhere in Europe have relations between guest and host become more acrimonious than in Switzerland. Uberfremdung (over-foreignization) has been a battle cry of the far right for the past five years. Under a particularly vicious law that severely restricts the right of migrants to bring their families into Switzerland, several infants have actually been expelled. In one case, a three-month-old boy was expelled because his Italian parents were not married, but was allowed to return after newspaper protests...