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...window onto the world's future, Isabella agrees with the angels: human life is "just a series of stories and plays, most of which are exactly the same!" There is no reason to regret a bad life if it is "all just a story." Although reluctantly, Prose does allot Isabella a two-sentence demurral to finish the book: she wonders how the Glorious Ones' yearnings for earthly fame fit into the picture...
Evans said last night that he had hoped the council would allot the program more money so that it could continue to teach all freshmen and decrease class sizes at the same time...
...same man who made Last Tango in Parish and a possibly greater film, The Conformist (1970). Its pseudo-political content, called "Marxist" by Bertolucci, is puerile at best. And there is no way to classify Partner with some sweeping phrase: even the most taxonomic of critics would have to allot a special hole for this quirky film. Partner is interesting only because it accents Bertolucci's weaknesses...
...indeed yawns no wider than that, Simon leans toward a kind of semi-rationing: a system that would allot a certain number of gallons of gas a week to each driver (or car) at taxes no higher than those now in effect but would clamp a heavy "excess-use" tax on purchases above that basic limit. The plan has some advantages over outright rationing. It would assure everyone of a basic gasoline supply while permitting people to choose freely how much they really wanted to drive. It would also produce new Government revenues that could be used to fund mass...
Sometimes violence extendes beyond the territory we allot to it. A bombing of a munitions factory in an American city or a murder on Brattle street are considered abnormal. The privileged male, the educated male should be able to oppress subtly--to financially benefit from cheap labor without ever having to smell the sweat, to be certain that the women are under control and safely at home without ever having to say a word about it. Only it is not part of the plan that the women of one's own neighborhood are killed. That is dominance going beyond...