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...give a hoot" attitude which the guardians of virtue identify as "voluntary cooperation" is a source of grave danger. It is present-day censorship's trump card...
...Harvard in 1958 when a proud, but poverty-stricken University rejects an offer of $5 million on the condition that it must build "a non-sectarian chapel for the Worship of Money." This single idea is a basically funny one, but the story fails because it has no present-day point of departure. It is written as a satire, but it is impossible to tell of what...
Tahmassebi's next call was on Navab Safavi, hard-working boss of the terrorist Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam), which plotted Razmara's killing. Safavi was himself in jail on suspicion of murdering other moderates, but in present-day Iran that is a mark of distinction. The two wept at the reunion, and Tahmassebi said: "Thanks to God we succeeded in our task." Over fruits and sweets served in his cozy cell, Safavi boasted: "I am such a powerful man that if I decide at any time, the gates of this prison will be opened...
...myrrh. (He gave no directions for catching the swallow.) Bitter almonds had a legendary reputation in the Middle Ages, but Sir Thomas (Religio Medici) Browne, checking up in the 17;th century, sadly reported: "That antidote against ebriety . . . hath commonly failed." Later came raw eels, thoughtfully suffocated in wine. Present-day self-treatments include yeast, yoghurt, lime juice, vitamin B1, cabbage water or diminishing doses of alcohol...
...Nazi-Rebirth" in your Nov. 25th issue. Being an exchange student from Germany, I feel that I should give you some supplementary information so as to correct some of the mistakes in the article which, if not corrected, might leave the innocent reader with a rather distorted picture about present-day Germany...