The claim that he was responsible for the death of five million Jews — the approximate total of the losses suffered from the combined efforts of all Nazi bureaus and authorities — was preposterous, as he knew very well, but he had kept repeating the damning sentence ad nauseam to everyone who would listen, even long after the war, when he was in Argentina.
The letter contains the damning sentence: "It is our view that after seven years, Mr. Blair's achievements are negligible, even within his narrow mandate of promoting Palestinian economic development".
For Mansfield and Winthrop, the peril is big government, which leaves civil society dependent; for Wolin, the peril is invisible government by rich men and technocrats, in which democracy is, as he writes in a damning final sentence, "perpetuated as philanthropic gesture, contemptuously institutionalized as welfare, and denigrated as populism".
Here, Turnbull would be well advised to recall the damning last sentence of George Orwell's Animal Farm: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which".
He read this to me and added, "I must say, I'm damn proud of that sentence.
Look, I know my editor told me that if I overused the "one problem" expression that the words would lose their power, but I'm the author and, besides the fact, those two sentences were so damn cool.
In what alternate universe does inserting a "shit" or a "god damn" to an otherwise hum-drum, church-approved sentence negate your femininity?
His tone, even at sixty-eight, is a marvel: a great rumbling; the sound of terror, it seemed to me — the voice that sentences the damned.
His tone, even at sixty-eight, is a marvel: a great rumbling; the sound of terror, it seemed to me the voice that sentences the damned.
