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...deserted city. And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world." Yet, despite this lyrical sensualism, it was Camus' beiief in an intellectual revolt (after facing "the absurd") that most renewed and sustained his bat tle against the "quivering wings" of a suicidal death...
...Bat Club, Treasurer; House Fencing; Circulation editor, Hillel Newsletter; Hasty Pudding, Equipment Manager; Adams House 18th Century Society...
...Bat cries in the night, cobwebs on the tower stairs-all the exquisitely accumulated gothic horrors-these are the forte of frail, large-eyed women novelists. Joyce Carol Oates, a brilliant writer, offers an updated variation on the genre by taking the American Dream and turning it into a kind of American nightmare...
Peace groups, the international student conspiracy. The Revolution-all are our children. We concocted Chicago from one Bat for peace, Numerous Democratic toads, And a pressure-cooked American flag...
Most Americans are not even sure what they want the police to police. "We ask our officers to be a combination of Bat Masterson, Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, King Solomon, Hercules and Diogenes," says Rocky Pomerance, Miami Beach police chief. Indeed, the U.S. often seems lucky to have any cops at all. Plato envisaged the policeman's lofty forebear as the "guardian" of law and order and placed him near the very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places...