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...Ogre, though heroic, is grotesque...
...thousands of people in the West, Willy Brandt has been one of the truly heroic figures of the postwar world. He is still remembered by many as the fighting mayor of West Berlin. More important, though, he was a statesman-realist who was determined to confront and conquer Germany's shameful past, a Europe-minded visionary who preached unity for the Continent, and the Nobel Peace-prizewinning architect of Ostpolitik. Konrad Adenauer cemented West Germany's ties with the West, and Ludwig Erhard fashioned the economic miracle that has made the Deutsche Mark the world's most...
...even such intense and barbarous bombing, carried on for 195 days and nights, could stop the advance of the heroic Cambodian People's Army of National Liberation, which is now at Phnom Penh, the last refuge of Lon Nol's traitors. Some units are even fighting in the capital itself. More than 90 per cent of the national territory, with a population of more than 5.5 million people out of 7 million in the country, is already liberated...
...long as the Nixon administration continues its aggressive war and intervention in Cambodia to try to save its creature, the band of traitors in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian people and its heroic People's Army for National Liberation, under the direction of the National United Front of Cambodia and the Royal Government of the National Cambodian Union headed by Norodom Sihanouk, chief of state of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will have no other honorable alternative but to continue without compromise or hesitation their war of resistance till it ends in total victory...
...sense of concreteness and colloquial ambience. He talks normal, only we should talk so good. The "E Street Shuffle" itself is a literal evocation of street-corner cacaphony, in which "Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains" and police and kids seem bent on heroic mutual harrassment...