Red Guards whom he met in Peking, Shanghai, and Kwangchow were bright and cheerful and full of self-confidence, and he could explain this by the fact that they are children of peasant soldiers who have become a sort of privileged class since the establishment of the Communist regime.

[T]he punisher believes that the suffering she inflicts somehow offsets the (perceived) wrongdoing, but even the indignant discipliner (if suffering is what the discipliner inflicts) simply in order to attain a result: in order to educate, prevent, and so on.

During this 15-year period, 1,176 lumbar spinal surgeries were performed, and the procedures included the following: simple decompression procedures such as micro- or endoscopic discectomy or foraminotomy or decompression of stenosis, arthrodeses (e.g., posterolateral interbody, posterior/transforaminal interbody, and lateral interbody), filum detethering, or syrinx shunting.

He was such a dyed-in-the-wool partisan that I just couldn't get through to him and change his mind.