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...left him there, still eating his oyako, and hurried into the mechanized night of Boston cops and omnibuses, feeling hungry and not at all alien...
...live up to them. Says Kolakowski ironically: "A social system based on unlawfulness, oppression and unhappiness, when it masks itself with humanistic phraseology, does not, in spite of appearances, become more effective in the long run. At a certain moment, its facade turns against it because it was always alien to it." But, he adds, "in the larger view, the increase of hypocrisy is proof of moral progress because it testifies that what was done formerly outspokenly without fear of being compromised cannot be carried out today without that risk...
...driving Frankie and Johnnie, he spun his way through two of the best blues ever written: House of the Rising Sun and Hard Times Blues. White followed these with a blues version of Molly Malone. This song, like Barbara Allen before the intermission, illustrates his tendency to convert songs alien to his background into personal vehicles; his Barbara and Molly come from New Orleans, but Josh makes them convincing...
...disease) was reported to Zurich by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, director of Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. Key to the treatment: "complete depatterning" of the patient's mind through shock therapy and deep sleep. Unlike brainwashing, Psychiatrist Cameron's method does not seek to implant alien ideas in the mind, but rather to break the chain of schizophrenic reactions and leave the mind free to reorganize itself. Granting that the method is "a sharp tool," Cameron considers it justified for the most stubborn cases, declares this controversial technique has proved "more successful than any previously reported...
...worst of sentimental notions is that "the artist and intellectual is alien in this country. That's nonsense...