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...nature provided of notable multiplying glasses--that is, their passion and self-love--through which every little payment appears a great grievance, but are destitute of those prospective glasses ... to see afar off the miseries that hang over them and cannot without such payments be avoided." Thomas Hobbes...
...outside, the Philbys of this world are still at large, observing us from afar, listening to us through brick walls, photographing us with lenses that pierce the night, recruiting the next crop of fellow travellers even as they discredit the old, detonating their minds with new lies." Underneath this language: Tick . . .Tick . . . Tick . . -Michael Demarest
Commenting after Kennedy's speech, Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer Professor of Public Administration, said, "There is damned little that one can glean from afar in this campaign. Nothing has been said about Iran or Afghanistan to speak of in a long time...
...Three days later in neighboring Afghanistan, the new Soviet-installed regime announced it would follow suit. By week's end the U.S. newsmen in both countries were being deported, and the American press faced the dismal prospect of covering the world's two most volatile stories from afar. Tales of two expulsions...
...girl of the title role (Laura Esterman) is a shtetl beauty, eyed from afar by the local shlemiel, Alchonon (F. Murray Abraham). Teibele loathes her admirer - until he appears in her bed room in the guise of a demon. Under the stars they become lovers, while under the sun they remain strangers, until the night creature persuades his lady to marry Alchonon. But with the public union come private agonies: the alchemic force disperses, leaving two ordinary people who plunge into insanity and sorrow...