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...troubled presidency. Fourteen months ago, she led Argentina in an emotional period of mourning for her husband and political mentor, Juan Domingo Perón. More recently, her publicly shed tears have become both a sign of her own increasingly fragile physical and emotional condition and an apt acknowledgment of the problems that her erratic rule has brought to her country. A week ago, when she handed over temporary executive power to Italo Luder, Provisional President of the Argentine Senate, she was choking back tears once again. "This is only a little goodbye," she said on a television broadcast from...
Humble Detritus. But incident is the least of Author Woiwode's concerns. He subtitles this novel A Family Chronicle, and the description is apt. The book's rhythm is not that of cinema but of still life. Woiwode scatters memorabilia of the Neumiller clan through 44 separate stories, some of which have appeared alone in such dissimilar magazines as The New Yorker and Mademoiselle. Most of the tales are inventories of nostalgia-the humble detritus of people who, in George Eliot's phrase, "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." With rare patience...
Peterson said that the Center for Jewish Studies Drive is "apt to appeal to a special clientele." He added that the drive "has a very high priority for those with a special interest in the field...
...transferred, as have 13 of her 17 para-professionals (trainees who work with regular instructors at half pay; many study for their own teacher's certificates). Security protection has been reduced from three to two hours a day, and with less supervision, young pupils are more apt to wander away from school during lunch and not come back...
...work are complex, but Scott's style is lucid and well tethered to physical realities. The novels are serious, but they are also a weaving of well-told stories, and reading them gives no sense of swallowing a moral pill. For those who must have comparisons, the most apt one that comes to mind is Ford Madox Ford's four-volume meditation over the coming apart of the British Empire, Parade's End. Those few who have read Ford's magnificent work will know that the comparison is high praise indeed...