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...unjustified anger opened the door to guilt. Hence the need for restitution. "Ford's fixation on the car," says Author Jardim, "can mean only that it had come to symbolize for him a means of expiation. The Model T was the farmer's car, durable, bereft of frills, and cheap." And the farmer for whom it was built was in reality the elder Ford, whose heavy labors his son had observed from childhood. "To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition," Henry once said...
...values-the myths and institutions with which civilization consoles itself and explains the unexplain-able-are everywhere under attack and crumbling. Bereft of their support, says May, contemporary man faces a deeply disturbing alternative. He must either look to himself for the meaning of life, or he must decide that he and life have no meaning. All too readily, man takes the latter course...
...result of the northward migration, many villages in southern Europe, particularly in Italy, are almost bereft of their young men. "The only union members we have in this town are pensioners," a labor organizer complained recently. Every village has its "white widows" whose husbands headed north soon after the wedding. In the first half of last year, 140,000 Italians left their country. Only 20,000 went overseas; the rest went north...
...verse. It was time to go to the Aquarium. Huntley, clutching a copy of Great Expectations which had passed his long subway ride, was excited because he had previously visited when the Big Tank was inoperative. We surfaced from Government Center, strolled past City Hall, which he lamented was bereft of plants, threaded through some markets, where Huntley priced artichokes, and finally arrived at the Aquarium. I bought a hot dog so impenetrable that I wondered if it weren't some subtle coral washed ashore and marketed by a humorless entrepreneur...
...menagerie of characters. With endearing clumsiness and sententious didacticism, Jean Genet has written a clowncrie (clown show) as subtle as this production at the Loeb Drama Center is deft and forthright. The New African Company, in conjunction with the Theatre Company of Boston, offers on the Loeb mainstage (normally bereft of black performers) a panoply of gifted black actors and actresses, in a visual spectacle of remarkable exuberance...