Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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What a disgrace to the medical profession! Instead of devoting his time and skill to the alleviation of human suffering, Che Guevara chooses to dedicate himself to the destruction of men's souls...
...Instead, he sang the praises of the hand-picked "Mutual Help" Assembly with which he has replaced Indonesia's former elected Parliament and glowed over the new National Front, a "nonpolitical" movement consisting of Sukarno's own Nationalist Party, the inept Moslem Teacher's Party and the dazed Communists, who find Sukarno even more disruptive than they are. The National Front, Sukarno predicted, would always reach unanimous agreement on everything "without taking votes." Then, as a lesson to those who still thought there might be something in voting, he abruptly announced a ban against two of Indonesia...
...blackboard, she taught letters with rhymes ("A,B,C,D,E,F,G" Alphabet for you and me" ), soon had tots answering the roll in alphabetical order. At midmorning lunch, she used the French words for utensils, picked a "mother" and "father" to police manners at each table. Instead of wasting the legally required rest period, she said: "Now we are pigeons, and we make a little nest on the desk with our arms." Then she played hi-fi classical records, hoping to spur "appreciation for music throughout later life...
...after death and come to inhabit another body?" In any case, he went on, "an evil-or, as I prefer to call it, 'low-grade'-spirit should always be prayed for with great compassion." Vicar Higgins' gentle formula for exorcism: "Depart into the realm of light instead of into outer darkness, from which the pathway of return is long and painful...
...Monday!" Some changed their names, but although "it was only a matter of two rubles and the proper enlightenment," Lasik Roitschwantz passed up the opportunity of becoming Spartacus Rosaluxemburgsky. Adopting two saints' names in the hagiography of Marxism* was his last chance to stay out of trouble. Instead, he sighs the wrong sort of sigh ("a purely pathological phenomenon") before a poster mourning the death of a party bigwig; he is denounced for antiSemitism, mysticism and "morbid eroticism"-being in love. Furthermore, he cannot get the Chinese question fixed in his mind. He is jailed but eventually wangles...