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Some cancer doctors admit that they have almost cracked up thinking about such things, and about their utter helplessness in hundreds of cases. Dr. Rhoads, too, has his moments of depression. He is sure that his method of concerted frontal attack, submerging niceties of scientific temperament, is correct. But he also knows that neither he nor his men nor anyone else in the world has yet found a cancer cure...
...idealistic reasons and in the hope of creating a better world. Power is now frankly an end in itself. "God is power," explains the smiling, priestly torturer. Thus, to be Godlike, the man of 1984 must have such power over himself as to be capable of nothing but "utter submission" to the invisible Big Brother. By practising the Newspeak art of doublethink, he must learn to believe in the very core of his being that even "the stars can be near or distant, according as we [the party] need them." Only then can he become "immortal"-his identity lost...
What went wrong in China? The CRIMSON said we backed the wrong people, the big bad "warlords and bankers," whose utter inefficiency and lack of morale spelled defeat...
Overnight, Durocher the tartar became Durocher the martyr. Leo permitted himself a wan smile for photographers, spoke a sentiment for the press that he had seldom been able to utter before: "It's swell to know that some people are behind...
When neighbors visited Mrs. Sullivan (she was popular in the neighborhood, and generous with what little she had), Gerald was locked in his room, empty but for a dirty Army cot; he had been taught not to utter a sound. Last week Anna Sullivan forgot to lock the door; he escaped while she was telephoning...