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...there are few injuries, even fewer deaths. The blast, the Japanese people are told by a U.S. radio broadcast the next day, was a fearful new weapon, the atomic bomb. It had been deliberately triggered at a high altitude, offshore, to show them its power but spare them its hideous consequences. If they do not want the next Bomb on one of their cities, they must surrender within a week. Six days later, the Emperor himself breaks a Cabinet deadlock by declaring that Japan must submit...
...fiancee. And the monster is also a persecuting father figure who must be overcome if the son is to be successful. This Oedipal theme is a variation of the Faustian theme of man challenging God, son challenging father. The monster is in all a double threat, a hideous combination of psychological horrors. He is not simply aesthetically displeasing. He is a monster because he disturbs something very deep in us. Technology serves as the midwife to this frightening birth. In this early phase, the scientific fantasy arises from a profound unease with society and a fear and fascination of what...
Joseph Maher plays the vile braggart Parolles very close to farce. Dressed in hideous patchwork garb with a ring in his left ear, he exaggerates his hat flourishes, sticks himself with his sword, and at one point makes his exit like a javelin-thrower in slow motion. But why must he change Shakespeare's "an idle lord" to "a foolish lord"? Once started, there is no end to such idle tinkering...
...loose amongst us began then to take shape; that is, that the University is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force in our society which serves the interests of a hideous military- industrial complex by doing its chores and by intellectually emasculating the young entrusted to its care so as in time to turn them over as docile slaves to a contemptible "Establishment." It sounds a bit exaggerated I concede, but, as you can testify, this has been repeatedly asserted during your years in college...
...Haler McCarthy tactic of the "big lie." Pusey recalls in his speech the first bombasts of the new left, when, "the big lie let loose among us began to take shape; that is that the University is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force, which serves the interests of a hideous military industrial complex by doing its chores and by intellectually masculating the young..." Pusey coyly adds that he knows that must sound fidiculous, but there are people who actually believe...