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...revolutionaries in the struggle for liberation. The old guide began, "Sure, the Yankee imperialists played a major part in aiding the counter-revolutionary Cubans against us. The U.S. supplied arms and the C.I.A. also did its share of subversion." The guide showed us a photo display of a hollow shell stamped with a U.S. insignia...
...heroines tended to remain unknown soldiers. Perhaps it was partly the fear of oblivion that made Mary Wollstonecraft sit down late in 1791 and in six weeks write the 300 pages of A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Earlier that year, she had broken out of a shell of ladylike anonymity to print a bylined edition of her previously unsigned pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Man. It was a loosely reasoned but passionate answer to Edmund Burke's reservations about the French Revolution. It made Mary Wollstonecraft at 32 a popular radical writer, whose name...
...Strang's creative energies are lodged part and parcel with his strange psychosis, and its exorcism leaves him an empty shell, incapable of anything one-hundredth as passionate as before. This is the play's point, and it's not a new one and this isn't its most profound presentation. That madness may be better than sanity--who are we, who have never known true madness, to judge--goes back as far as you want to take it into Western thought. What Equus does is make it into good theater. Shaffer's play is propaganda for the Dionysiac element...
Flying Iron. By week's end, the death toll had reached 48 and was expected to rise; at least 900 were injured and 100 missing. Nearly half the population were without even the shell of a home for shelter; the city had no potable water, power or a working sewage system. Relief officials feared outbreaks of cholera and tetanus induced by contaminated water supplies and inadequate medical treatment...
...Harvard University eight-oared shell did something over vacation it doesn't do very often: it lost a race. The Cairo Police Rowing club handed the Crimson its first defeat in a long time on December 26, in the second and final race of the International Rowing regatta on the Nile...