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There are many aspects of Cornell's imagery which seem fey, precious or backward-looking: the Christmas frosting, bats and moss and dingly dells. There is a treacherous line between sentiment and sentimentality, particularly in his evocations of his own childhood. Yet time and again, even his most gothic fantasies and his most fussily reverential evocations of dead ballerinas are plucked back from the edge by Cornell's rigor as a formal artist. The essence of the box is to contain, and within a rectangular grid, at that. Cornell enhanced this with a spare, strict sense of proportion...
...capture only small swatches of the planet's stormy atmosphere. The spacecraft executed its maneuvers with astonishing precision - near the climax of its long journey it was only 19 km (12 miles) off course. Finally, Voyager climbed upward, once again crossing just outside Saturn's rings. Casting backward glances with its cameras and instruments, it soared above the ecliptic - the plane formed by the paths of planets orbiting the sun - and headed out of the solar system to wander aimlessly among the stars...
...such "redirect," Sophomore Susan Evans, 19, says she likes U.C.S.C. and believes the professors "bend over backward" to help their students. She wants to graduate from Berkeley, though, because of its prestige. But redirected Berkeley Applicant Emily Buchbinder, 18 plans to stay at Santa Cruz, because, she believes, it has a better program in her major, politics. "I'm definitely glad I came here," she says. "I feel I belong, and I don't think I would have felt that way if I had gone to Berkeley...
...symptoms: gasping and coughing, often followed by nervous disorders. Upon taking a drink of water, affected birds walk backward. Their wings droop, their legs drag, and they may become totally paralyzed within a few days. Poultrymen have developed vaccines against the more common forms of Newcastle, which was first recognized at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1926. Since then a more virulent strain has emerged. It was carried, Government officials suspect, by the rare tropical birds that are smuggled into the U.S., often by illicit drug dealers, and sold to eager buyers at fancy prices...
Among China's defects, Yuan mentions its long imitation of the Soviet system, which was not relevant to local conditions. Like many other intellectuals, he also blames the country's "feudal heritage," the centuries during which China's economy remained backward and "the Emperor's word was law." Adds Yuan: "One thing that the common people get very angry about is the special privileges of high-ranking officials. There used to be a saying in the old society that once a man got promoted, even his dogs and chickens could go to heaven." This notion lingers...