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Hobbing's entire story describes a highly emotional, but very common situation. The girl, Carla, wants to "run down a hill with the wind in her hair" before having intercourse. The male goes along with her whim, for obvious reasons. But how genuine is the girl? Is she consciously acting? Is she deluding herself about love to justify sex? Is she really in love? This is a very real situation, and Hobbing's ability to recreate the ambiguity which surrounds it helps compensate for the story's stylistic failures...
...names of your martyrs! For they forgave me." Chill Wind. The truth is, of course, quite different. Mr. Shin, refusing to issue a public statement supporting the Communists, had acted the role of a hero, as a captured North Korean officer privately reveals. He had been spared on a whim of the officers: "He was the only one who had enough guts to spit in my face. I admire anyone who can spit in my face. That's why I didn't shoot him." Mr. Shin's confession is thus shown to be a deliberate and calculated...
...France was once more a mover and shaker in world affairs. Backed by a surging economy, a rising birth rate and an unparalleled air of self-confidence, France has become the first power of Western Europe. It dominates the thriving six-nation Common Market and easily makes its whim become law, as was demonstrated last year when, arbitrarily and against the wishes of its co-partners, it refused Britain admission to the Common Market...
...spite of the consideration due the circumstances under which it was written, I must protest Martin Luther King's statement, "But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim...
...when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that "Funtown" is closed to colored children...