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...without roots and with constantly shifting goals. Neither in their work nor in love were they able to escape their sense of failure." All the experts agree that an assault on the President gives such a person the feeling of identity he has lacked and a sense of importance akin to that of the man he kills. The one who pulls down the Colossus of Rhodes will always go down in history, John Wilkes Booth is said to have told a friend. And today, he or she can achieve instant recognition. Says University of New Hampshire Professor Stuart Palmer...
What will be a surprise, however, is that the BRA is in effect saying no to Boston Edison, something akin to handing down a trust busting order to a monopoly...
Dylan has this concept of "the flood," akin to Hunter S. Thompson's "Edge:" one must sever all connections with artificial identities, reject everything that is taught, believe only what experience has shown you to be true. The danger of course is madness and despair, and Dylan has flirted with both of these (listen to "Dirge" on Planet Waves: "I went out all along Broadway/And I felt that place within/That hollow place where martyrs weep/And angels play with sin"). In this light, all these songs about "nothing" constitute a portrait of Dylan confronting his dread in a number of ways...
...academic community. Yet the rationalization of neutrality, has retained its hold. There are many Jews at this university who still cling to the belief in the religious neutrality of the university, in spite of the imposing church at its center. It has become something of a principle akin to the principle of the separation of church and state, with the difference that now there are more Jews at the University, the corrosive effect of the University's policy toward Judaism affects a substantially greater number of Jews...
With the help of Blit interpreters, whose language is distantly akin to Tasaday, communication slowly began. The primitives had no weapons, no agriculture, no art, no religion, no words for bad, enemy, war or kill. For good and beautiful they used the same term, mafeon. They loved the jungle; open country was "where the eye sees too far." Happiness flooded their lives. They laughed and hugged and nuzzled by the hour...