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...German conservatives, the Greens reflect old but recurring fears of the relentless advance of industrialism and urbanism that threaten the individual with a society of scientific management and assembly lines. With romantic and dangerously simplistic longing, the alternatives look to the lost past, to what they believe was a simpler, less corrupt world of noble motives and a pristine environment...
...Rumson, N.J., was desperate for help. Two of the spongy discs separating the vertebrae in his lower back had herniated, pressing on spinal nerves and causing excruciating pain. The 40-year-old business executive could either choose surgery to remove the "slipped" discs or go to Canada for a simpler, much ballyhooed but controversial therapy. The treatment: injection of chymopapain, a substance derived from the tropical papaya fruit...
...Madrid's concern over his image may also underlie his decision to keep today in augural ceremonies far simpler than those of outgoing President Jose Lopez pertillo six years ago. The new president has invited far fewer guests and no foreign heads of state to his swearing in a gesture that has also been widely interpreted as a sign of fiscal authority...
Most who visited the quasi-underground memorial last week had simpler, visceral reactions. Said former Marine David Zien of Medford, Wis.: "My chest was hollow, and I was a bit limp. It just overwhelms you." Friends and kin looked for names, aided by roving guides carrying alphabetized directories. Minera Peyton said she had come from Elsah, Ill. to "honor my son," dead for twelve years She visited National Cathedral on Friday at 3 a.m. to hear William Peyton's name and she liked the severe granite memorial. "It's not ostentatious," she said. Nearly everyone ran their hands...
Finally, editors could make all novels more readable--and space saving--by removing confusing and lengthy words. Throughout Great Expectations. Dickens relies upon "countenance" and "visage." Great Expectation, as you might guess, would employ something far simpler. "Face" comes immediately to mind...