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...weeks Claude Pepper's junior. I have three grandsons who are trying to establish households on beginners' salaries. TIME acclaims Pepper's mindless thesis that the accretion of birthdays somehow ennobles their possessor. While you applaud, I will sit on my hands...
Gang rape is war. It is the war of men against women for reasons easy to guess at, or for no reasons whatever, for the sheer mindless display of physical mastery of the stronger over the weaker. In the wake of the reports from Charlestown, New Bedford and the University of Pennsylvania, conjectures are bound to arise about the frustration of contemporary man at the growing independence of women, and there may be some truth to that. But men have never needed excuses to commit rape in gangs. The Japanese in China, the Russians in Germany, the Pakistanis in Bangladesh...
...importance of culture, but as all but conspiring to produce anthropological evidence supporting their view. Boas, Freeman says, not only sent Mead off to Samoa to study adolescence, but "devised" her research so that it would produce the corrects results. Often, Freeman portrays Mead Mead as merely a mindless extension of Boas--something her work in the fifty years after she was in Samoa probes wrong Moreover, Mcad if cast as a through incompetent anthropologist. By her own admission, she was not an experienced fieldworker when she went to the South Seas in 1925, but she was not untrained...
...Louis seems like such a bright young man. He writes articles about the nuclear debate here and in Europe as if he were Anthony Lewis '48, and he effectively discounts any responses to his pieces by labelling all his opponents dupes of the Reagan Administration spewing forth propaganda like mindless morons (a nice twist on the traditional right-wing method of calling opponents Communist dupes). This is a tried and true method for advancing one's opinion--discredit the opposition and no one but you is left for the reader to believe--and it speaks well for Mr. Louis...
...people of the Republic of Ireland who desire peace and reconciliation with their neighbors in Northern Ireland would be grateful if the misguided Irish Americans would cease contributing money to fund the mindless terrorists on this island...