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...this reason, I beg my fellow members of the University community to debate this issue all you want--before June 10. On that day, let my family and me enjoy what should be a wonderful day. Lawrence S. Carson...
Neither Selig nor Robe handle the transition between plotlines smoothly. Selig is forced to beg and grovel to Robe and the emotional fireworks don't suit him well. His face is expressive but his delivery is awkward. As Susan, Robe resorts to clipped anunciation and a martinet's strut to connvey emotional distance. Despite Robe's best efforts. Susan remains an unplansible caricature of promiscuity and icy reserve. Robe has a much firmer grasp of Susan. Whining, shuffling, and grimacing, Susan amuses an undercurrent of threat...
Under the blazing morning sun a hodgepodge of military vehicles falls into sloppy formation on the dunes near the Mogadishu airport. Somali children sneak through shell holes in a wall to beg for food and baksheesh. Marines shoot souvenir snapshots of each other as the convoy slowly takes shape...
Sometimes the desire for privacy wins out, and the speakers complain about not being able to leave the world, or announce that they are in fact leaving it. At other times the speakers are too alone, and beg for time or energy to continue traveling/ working/ communicating...
Russians may beg, borrow or steal foreign artifacts and ideas, but the vast majority of them would never want to live abroad. Those who do emigrate often suffer from chronic homesickness. Though keenly embarrassed by their economic and social backwardness, they believe passionately in the inherent superiority of their own soulfulness when compared with the arid materialism of the West. Ivan Goncharov's classic 19th century novel, Oblomov, presents the ethnic German Stolz as a model of energy and industry, but it is the dreamy Russian Oblomov who handily wins the competition of cultures. It may take Oblomov most...