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Last week, after Greece's Minister for Religion and Education threatened to introduce a bill that would void the election of "unpopular" primates, Iakovos at last resigned. He then went home, suffered a slight heart attack, and was placed under a doctor's care...
...frustrated, Weltschmertz becomes "sick"; he assists two lost souls to break through the barrier of earth into the void. The souls, Hector and Gnatalia (in a vague way Adam and Eve figures), pollute the atmosphere of the void; so much so that Rex Regis, a vice-President, must call upon Plantagenet to psychoanalyze Nathan, and persuade Him that He can in fact control His planet in His own way. And that the Doctor does, with what an earlier school of reviewing would call many riotous consequences...
...oppressed, hungry people seems a necessity. In their pursuance, as well, the Chinese people will be denied the invaluable help of reflecting upon their rich and noble past or upon any form of spiritual and moral ideals. The Chinese Communist "utopia" that may form, needless to say, will be void of any expression of human dignity...
Korea's chronically unfavorable trade balance ; before the coup the country imported ten times as much as it exported. But the ban on imports has also denied shopkeepers the wares they need to stay in business, and backward domestic industry is incapable of filling the void...
...Above all, we must love Europe," he wrote, "this Europe to whom La Gioconda forever smiles, where Hamlet seeks in thought the mystery of his inaction, where Faust seeks in action comfort for the void of his thought, where Don Juan seeks in women met the woman never found, and Don Quixote, spear in hand, gallops to force reality to rise above itself. This Europe must be born. And she will, when Spaniards will say 'our Chartres,' Englishmen 'our Cracow,' Italians 'our Copenhagen'; when Germans say 'our Bruges,' and step back horror...