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...enduring appeal of Darwin's airy and cultured prose which is leavened by a trenchant wit. In later years, Darwin moved away from straight narratives of golf matches and Mostly Golf contains numerous childhood reminisces, discourse childhood reminisces, discourse on the family dogs, and humorous essays of a philosophical bent...
Different Dilemma. Clearly benefiting from the publicity, Traube now denies having met any terrorists other than Klein. "Maybe I am a little naive," he said, on learning the bent of some of his friends. He argues that as soon as Verfassungsschutz realized that his relations with them were innocent, the agency should have pressured Interatom to rehire him. Traube is demanding a hearing at which he can confront Interior Minister Werner Maihofer, the man ultimately responsible for the bugging...
...then change rooms to work out his final painting or sculpture, allowing his mind free reign to reshape a pose according to his own sense of design. One can see this technique in these statuettes: he seems to have done precise copies of models and then inventively stretched and bent the forms for characteristic effects. "You need natural life, I need artificial life," he once told a group of Impressionist colleagues, and he was known to attack their techniques savagely with humorous remarks or gestures. Policemen should be employed to go out and gun down all the easels that cluttered...
...much of the union's dissatisfaction is genuine and how much one can lay simply to the inevitable resistance to change within any organization is still an open one. Certainly some of the union opposition seems to stem from personal antipathy towards Gorski, who as a newcomer bent on shaking up the University's police force was certain to encounter a considerable amount of parochial resistance. Nevertheless, the University's response has so far demonstrated little recognition of the fact that the Police Association might have some valid arguments--and as a result there seems little chance of disentangling...
...experience, turning those reels of film." But after a couple of eye-straining hours, he got up to leave. "As I walked out through the genealogical reading room, I noticed sort of peripherally that unlike the usual library scene where people are lolling around, here the people were intently bent over the books and tables. The thought popped into my head that these people were trying to find out who they were. I turned around and went back into the microfilm room...