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While the Coast Guard watches Alaska's "growlers," British scientists are tracking something bigger: a 768-sq.-mi. Antarctic iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic and heading slowly for Africa. But the penguin-inhabited berg, 36 times the size of Bermuda, poses no threat to shipping; it should break up and melt as it hits warmer waters...
...Gerard terminates AIP funding he will "cut adrift" ten doctoral candidates and about 15 other students currently enrolled in the program, Ryan said. The eight-year-old Education School program is the only one in the country designed to train Indians in the field of education, he added...
Kafka's spirit was as precise as hallucination, but triply or quadruply removed, adrift, isolated: a German-speaking Jew living in Prague in the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, emotionally overpowered by his father. Interesting, if futile, critical combats have been waged over the question of whether Kaf ka was merely a talented neurotic or a visionary genius. Edmund Wilson wrote in 1950: "Kafka is being wildly overdone . . . The trouble with Kafka was that he could never let go of the world-of his family, of his job, of his yearning for bourgeois happiness-in the interest...
Throughout the first half of the production, the innovative insertions are, with a few exceptions, burdensome and even annoying. Jeff Rothstein as the speaking Prospero saves the first half with a strong, well-modulated voice and a smooth characterization of the nobleman, set adrift years before, who seeks his revenge through sorcery. Marc Baum sparkles as Caliban, the semi-human creature who tries to escape his enslavement to Prospero. Baum bellows and mugs marvelously as the half-sane, half-stupid creature, off-setting weak performances by all three Mirandas, all of whom seem drugged...
Most worrisome of all, though, is Carter's continuing failure to set a strong direction on economic policy. "We're adrift," complains Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Banking Committee. "Carter will never win businessmen's confidence by saying that he wants to be loved. What businessmen respect, rightly, is mastery...