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...Reagan military buildup are redundant. The Pentagon does not need the land-based MX missile, say the Brookings experts, when it also plans to have the submarine-based Trident D-5 aimed at Soviet targets. Also high on the hit list are the B-1B bomber, the AH-64 attack helicopter and the F-15 fighter. By Brookings estimates, the Government could carve $46 billion out of the defense budget by 1989 without threatening national security...
...just received an "A" on an exam objects. "But sir, I really don't deserve it, it was mostly bull, really." To this kind of remark, there is only one possible rejoinder. Alfred North Whitehead's: "Yes sir, what you wrote is utter nonsense, utter nonsense! But ah! Sir! It's the right kind of nonsense...
...Ah, those gorgeous gams! At 50 she's still nifty...
...Ah, love let us be true To one another! For the world, which seems to be before unlike a land of dreams. So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light. Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain, And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight...
...Middle Ages) has a sure sense of structure and an ear for dialogue. But his play is irreparably flawed where it veers away from the original. In James' story the old woman never mentions any letters and finds out only at the end what her boarder is after. "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" she hisses. In Gurney's play, the woman demands that the young man write her biography and teases him with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character is ultimately unbelievable, as is that...