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Considering the continent's potentially divisive factors-thousands of tribes to which most Africans owe their first allegiance, lack of a common language or religion, the wild variety of governmental patterns that developed after liberation from colonial status -the mere fact that the O.A.U. has remained in existence for ten years is a tribute to African tenacity. Dedicated to unity, the organization has insisted on consensus. Given the size of its membership, this rule hurts its effectiveness...
...American people should now realize to whom they owe a debt of gratitude for whatever morality is left in official life. If the press ever allows itself to be stifled by a cunning President or his overzealous staff, we, the people, will be the only ones to suffer...
Picasso's effect on the sociology of art was in no way less radical. That restless inventiveness provoked in collectors the expectations about stylistic "turnover" that, now built into the market, are such a strain on more single-minded talents. It is to Picasso that we owe, in no small way, the oppressive image of the artist as a superstud that only now is coming under attack. He has even had a degree of political effect: Guernica, the mural canvas he painted in protest against the fascist ruin of Spanish democracy, is certainly the most disseminated work of political...
...right to property is set up within society," Kelman asserted. Democratic socialists believe that men are products of their environment, he said, and owe a large portion of the success they achieve to others. "Thomas Alva Edison could not have gotten along without the contributions of all sorts of others who were less talented," he said...
...best of all possible worlds, no dour Diogenes straining for a glimpse of an honest man by lamplight. This guy is as slyly glib as a carnival barker, as horny as Portnoy, as resilient as a trampoline. Yet he knows Shakespeare's prophecy for Everyman: "We owe God a death...