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...Arabs say they will use their refugees to destroy Israel. We will not commit suicide by letting these refugees return...
...plumply rounded female forms and filamentlike masculine figures. "Some people call me a symbolist, but that alone is not a style. Painters might be the last great religious people, in the sense of having a vision. Yet if we really knew what we were painting, most of us would commit suicide." Though Greene's late oils are flamboyant with color, the dark side persists in black maws that gape open in his canvases. "There is always something terrible happening in a beautiful world. But everything is not all black-and if it's not all black...
...most strident blast at Moscow since the Sino-Soviet squabble began. A 60,000-word broadside in Peking's theoretical journal Red Flag declared: "Certain people, though calling themselves Marxist-Leninists, are in fact muddleheaded; they talk drivel . . . They either make endless concessions to the enemy and thus commit the error of capitulationism, or act recklessly and thus commit the error of adventurism." Peking added contemptuously that Communists like Russia's Khrushchev, Italy's Togliatti and France's Thorez, who advocated "peaceful" revolution in the West, were guilty of "parliamentary cretinism...
...Guard: "Commit murder and die happy, is that what you mean, sir? But we can't advertise that, now can we. They'd all be doin' it. They take religion seriously in this country, y'know...
Members of the present Executive Committee have refused to commit themselves to any candidate, preferring to wait for the usually gruesome question period before making their weight felt