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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...will probably be considered for parole in 20 years. The Dallas sentence opened up the possibilities of a whole new scale of metaphysical punishment, however. If 1.000 years for robbery by assault, why not 2,500 for rape and 3.000 for murder? Such sentences would have little meaning except as a measurement of moral outrage and as gratification for those who impose them...
...clothing with a knife. "I'm either out of touch with Oriental culture," says Mrs. Shriver, wife of an oil-company executive, "or there's something here that escapes me." In another scene, the man strokes the girl's private parts. Both are naked except for masks. "I can't tell what they're doing," says Mrs. Shriver. "Don't ask," replies Mrs. Avara, 60, a widow who has been on the board since...
...this marriage of hers: it will work. It is working. "Peter is my rock," she says. "I love him. In fact I like him. I really like him." Though she loves to be with friends, talking, talking, talking, she claims, "I'm a little shy, especially in crowds. Except when I'm wafting." Wafting? "That's when you pretend you're not really you. It's like when you were a kid and used to play games where you were Nancy Drew. Like you walk into a crowded room as an observer...
INDUSTRIALIZATION. "If we look at the spread of industrial civilization throughout the world, we find that its chief cause was the overwhelming military superiority of the industrialized over unindustrialized states." CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Except for the hunt, intertribal warfare was mankind's first significantly large collective action. In this respect, Andreski says, the organization required to set up armies served as a useful model for government. Andreski cites as one example the development of the infantry phalanx by the ancient Greeks. Individual force was pooled into collective force-a lesson writ large in the philosophy of mass democracy. DEMOCRACY...
...that the human voices preserved in books belong to the real features of the world, and that children are so powerfully attracted to this world that the very motion of their curiosity comes through to us as a form of love; that an active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience...