Word: mindless
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Arab rulers realize that mindless destruction would hurt them more than the companies, which have alternative sources of supply-for example, in Iran. After the Six-Day War Egypt's President Nasser pressured other Arab countries into shutting off oil production for a while, but quietly kept his own country's oil flowing with the help of U.S. technicians. Now, however, Arab governments share with their populations a feeling that the U.S. should somehow be made to pay for its support of Israel. That feeling neatly coincides with -and underlies-a mounting demand for a greater share...
...told them to call beautiful- parade in front of them. Magazines, TV, and Fifth Avenue stimulate, over and over again, a sexual desire that they can never satisfy. It grows in them until it kills their insides, overwhelming the more subtle need for companionship. They turn into mindless animals, hungry hyenas looking for a kill...
...hair is shaved to within an eighth of an inch from the scalp, and they are dress in oversized workpants, thin red suspenders and hobnailed, steel-toed boots costing about$10 and known as "cherry reds." The skinheads are lineal descendants of the rockers-with an added touch of mindless savagery. When their hair grows a frifle longer, they refer to themselves as suedeheads. Skins or suedes, they specialize in terrorizing such menacing types as hippies and homosexuals, Pakistani immigrants and little old ladies. "Hairies," those with long hair or hippie-style clothing, are their particular enemies, but they...
...taken and nicely expressed. He remembers that, as an entering freshman at Harvard, "One felt good to be part of an institution with those pretensions." In view of SDS accusations that the moderate leadership sought to sell out the strike, and Steven Kelman's contention that the moderates were mindless running dogs for SDS instigators, it is refreshing to hear a response from the moderate faction that rises to the level of coherent political analysis. And Zorza offers a vital yet rarely grasped insight into the thinking of the conservative academic...
...would be foolhardy not to be concerned about the turmoil and strife and violence we witness, much of it mindless and devoid of constructive ends. But concern must not give way to panic. I am optimistic. I believe our institutions are durable enough to surmount any attack. This is so partly because no week passes in this country without meetings of men and women dedicated to revise, improve and reshape our institutions to serve people...