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...process words as well. They could become the first generation in history to be bilingual, in this sense, fluent onscreen as well as off. We need not, when we learn to talk, forget to communicate in other ways. But only words can teach the use of words, and ideas beget ideas. So just as certain tribes must be taught how to read a TV set, we must be taught how to read the world outside the TV set. Much better, then, to speak up than down, especially when speech itself is threatened. Nobody ever said that thinking need be binary...
Ephraim Gursky begins it all in the 19th century. The fugitive from Minsk becomes the thief of London and the prisoner of Newgate. Deported, he turns into the con man of the Klondike. This ultimate survivor begets 27 unacknowledged offspring, plus Aaron, who begets the predatory Bernard and the doomed and mysterious Solomon. The brothers beget a liquor business that makes them the intimates of gangsters during Prohibition and the cynosure of politicians ever after. Their descendants become various refractions of the founder: vulgar, sensitive, avaricious, undirected, lost...
Palestinian guerrillas armed with automatic weapons offered a grim demonstration of that philosophy last month when they ambushed an Israeli patrol in the Gaza Strip and killed two soldiers. But stepped-up Palestinian violence will only beget more violence from Israel. Warned Brigadier General Zvi Poleg, who commands Israeli forces in Gaza: "The rules of the game change when lethal weapons are used against soldiers...
Historical Harvard-Wellesley ties sometimes beget new ones. "My parents met 25 years ago because my mother went to Wellesley and my father went to Harvard. I was curious so I thought I'd give it a shot," Vinton says. Did he succeed? "I went to a party and met a girl," he says...
...QUESTION of accidental kindness versus incidental cruelty. The heat-grate business. The Leverett House controversy. Senior Tutor Thomas A. Dingman '67 summed it up best: "It was an agonizing decision." Forgetting, of course, that agony is dual-edged. That agonized decisions beget agonized results. That agony is relative, contagious, common. That agony, like charity, begins in the home...