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Besides, Tolstoy did not suffer from the pathetic phallacy according to which all existence revolves around sex. Many authors today treat sex the way Marxists treat economics; they see it at the root of everything, and daydream about sexual triumph the way revolutionary writers daydream about power. Thus in the tirelessly explicit writing of Norman Mailer, sex is a personal boast, a mystique and an ideology-and, in all three capacities, solemn and unconvincing...
...even in the midst of decay the seeds of rebirth took root. As early as 1744 the fierce Wahhabi movement began preaching the need for a strict return to Islamic practice, and its doctrine slowly spread through the lands of the faith. Sharply countering Moslem fatalism, the 19th century philosopher Al Afghani preached ijtihad (self-exertion), urging Islam to adapt to the currents of change in the modern world. India's Ahmadiyya movement helped revive Islam's long-dormant lust for converts. Twentieth century nationalism gradually brought independence, and a new spirit of confidence, to Islamic countries...
...this point the main course arrived, a plate heaped high with whole-wheat noodles, a vegetable tempora, fried lily-root, seaweed, and brown rice...
...Give the Federal Government more weapons with which to root out organized crime, which the President called "an entrenched national industry." One proposal, being drafted by the Justice Department, would grant the feds jurisdiction over "juice" (usurious loans), with interest rates some times ranging up to 20% a week, by which sharks and syndicates have milked and bankrupted laboring men and businesses. The Administration also urged passage of a bill sent to Congress by the Justice Department that would make arson a federal offense when the arsonist crosses a state line. This was aimed at racketeers, who, according...
...root of the widespread human uselessness that we mistakenly ascribe to automation, we must look into a vast cultural chasm that separates the successfully employed from the so called unemployable ... Although city dwellers, these "unemployables" have the characteristics of the preurban, prefactory villager of the agrarian age." Asbell's themes deserve thoughtful, thorough treatment. It is a shame they are developed with so little insight or discipline in The New Improved American...