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...whose end is needed, he explains, "Masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons." The two identically costumed soldiers are reminiscent of Rosencranz and Guildenstern in their ignobility: the king alternately wheedles and bullies them. "I will advise you where to plant yourselves, Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' th' time...
...reasons Jefferson gave for the paucity of spirit in this country sound superficial, but then a single night's resurrection could hardly acquaint him with the way in which industrialism and more recently technology have altered the American personality. Fragmented into numerical units by an insensitive bureaucracy, separated from much that is natural, fixed into a lock-step system, and forever cajoled to pursue materialistic affluence, no wonder so many Americans have lost spirit...
...Your article "REAPing a Budgetary Whirlwind" [Feb. 5] states that few urban Americans have ever heard of REAP, Rural Environmental Assistance Program, which you describe as a "classic case of an originally worthwhile program that has outlived its usefulness." I do not believe that your attempt to acquaint the American public with REAP reflects our experience with the program in Nebraska...
...delayed return of an hour exam or paper, students in the College have little direct contact with the Graduate Student Union. Certainly, there have not been many undergraduates at Union meetings this past month. Nor has there been pressure brought to bear or people in the College to acquaint themselves with the issues. This should not be surprising, though, since at most 200 teaching fellows--those in the best position to bring pressure--have bothered to enroll Union...
Malamud's own response has always been personal--"the Jewish experience compelled me to look to my own past." What moved him initially was not Jewish theology or philosophy, although over the years he would study Jewish civilization and history and acquaint himself with many facets of Jewish culture. "It was the people I knew from the time I was a small kid;" neighborhood store keepers like Malamud's own father, who may have served as models for Morris Bober in The Assistant, the old and young of the urban population in New York City, who appear in some...