"A slip in reading that I perpetrate very often when I am on holiday… is both annoying and ridiculous: I read every shop sign that suggests the word in any way at all as 'Antiques'.
Cleverly recognising that "it's embarrassing to be solemn and treatise-like about Camp" and run the risk of having perpetrated "a very inferior piece of Camp", Sontag proceeds to set out 58 witty and coruscating numbered "notes", culminating in the ultimate Camp statement: "It's good because it's awful".
Given that Michael Phelps' career would have remained blissfully undestroyed had the paper chosen not to publish the photograph, one has to marvel at the amoral audacity of the News of the World: in purporting to report on the potential harm to Phelps' image and career from his having smoked cannabis, the newspaper was, in fact, perpetrating that very harm.
As British statesmen were promoting a humanitarian agenda for others, their own Empire was perpetrating some very harsh policies on Africans, Indians, and Chinese that rested uneasily with the reform agenda.
Senior officers acknowledge that they are under pressure to get results but warn that if the bombing has been perpetrated by a very small group—or, worse, a single individual it could take a long time before the culprit or culprits are caught.The inquiry into the murder of Jill Dando may also take a long time.
He does not even attempt to broach the issue that we are locking up traumatised children, who go on to become traumatised adults and release this trauma through anger perpetrated against the very people they are supposed to honour and protect.
So let's get this straight: Adelphia Communications canned auditor Deloitte & Touche for failing to inform its board about the financial shenanigans being perpetrated by those very same board members.
But as Thomas Franks argued 15 years ago in his book The Conquest of Cool, counter-culture types who consider themselves cool for protesting the established order are falling for a con job perpetrated by that very establishment for the express purpose of getting them hooked on "hip consumerism".
"Never, never in this history [of America] has there been an intentional disaster, perpetrated by the very people who were elected to be the caretakers of this country, and that is exactly what will happen if we refuse to take action, prevent default and pay our nation's bills now," Hochul said.
These would, for instance, include its programto supply grants to local law enforcement agencies to help them buy military-grade equipment to be deployed not against terrorists, but against citizens protesting the injustices perpetrated by the very same agencies being armed by DHS. .
