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...Woe and perturbation! But don't worry too much about Tuesday. She still goes on an occasional bender, and talks openly about drugs. "I enjoy getting high on anything," she says. "No, not anything. Not drugs like acid. The pot I smoke has to be very good quality, and I love it. It gives you a terrific feeling...
...Christine Cromwell has had her share of poor-little-rich-girl problems, including five husbands and five divorces. She has also had a special woe: not being as rich in cash as she was in prospect. A granddaughter of Auto Magnate Horace E. Dodge, she was entitled to one-quarter of the $56 million he left in trust at his death in 1920. But there was a catch: the money could not be touched as long as Dodge's widow lived, which the hardy Scotswoman proceeded to do until 1970 when, by her own reckoning...
When Pharaoh cried: "O woe...
...Woe! Woe! The Children attack all worldly society with the fierce zeal of the Weatherman, using the cherished King James Bible as their proof text. They demand a strictly communal life as practiced by the early Christians according to the Book of Acts ("they held everything in common"). They avoid work except as it relates to their own communes, lest their members be forced to choose between God and mammon. Yet they badger businessmen to support them with handouts of money and supplies, while raging against a sinful America and proclaiming its-and the world's-imminent doom...
...most of these religions and ideas: therefore, the old philosophies are misleading, even dangerous. The worst offender, singled out by Monod, is historical materialism. "Looking back, how well one sees that, from the time of its birth, historical messianism based on dialectical materialism contained the seeds of all the woe later generations were to harvest." The notion of "scientifically" established laws of history is completely incompatible with Monod's new philosophy. Equally inept is the attempt to revise that history. Rather, Monod suggests that that ideology must simply be abandoned...