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...through Kennedy's omnibus education measure. As the President knows, this is the equivalent of pushing a dead horse. Even if the Administration could succeed in getting its bill to the floor of the House, opposition from Roman Catholics to the provision for aid to secondary schools would doom it once more...
...hearings wore on, the attorneys for Sacco and Vanzetti gradually became convinced that the committee was irrevocably prejudiced against them. "The doom of our clients seemed as inevitable as that of Socrates, and we were unwilling to continue in the face of unfair treatment, one defense attorney said...
Landmarks are toppling like dominoes, and the latest to get a foretaste of doom is Montmartre's Moulin Rouge, soon to make way for a supermarket unless sentimental Parisians can block its sale. Built in 1889 as a dance hall for Paris' deliciously depraved demimonde, it subsequently became a cabaret, vaudeville house, cinema, and a focal point for "generations" of wide-eyed tourists. Its raffish denizens were immortalized by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the unhappy dwarf who turned poster drawing into a fine...
...Meaning of Communism argues that Communism, though "implacably dedicated to destroying freedom," is undergoing such "evolutionary changes'' that its dogmas "may in time become something different in practice." In a concise analysis, the book traces the process right back to Marx, whose prophecies of capitalism's doom seemed brilliantly plausible, but "were proved wrong by capitalism's ability to purge its worst evils without revolution...
Politzer spent 20 years with his study, and that was too long. But he is perceptive in ferreting out the "perplexing parables" of Kafka's style. Driven by visions of horror and forebodings of doom, Kafka's great obsession was man's alienation from himself, from other me, from the absolute. "The crows maintain." he wrote, "that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of this, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heavens simply means: the impossibility of crows." Heavens that possess crows must stop being heavens; laws that touch...