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...Kliest's 1808 novella in The Marquise of O shows just how contorted that path can get. A young marquise, fleeing from an invading army, is set upon by four enemy troops determined to appropriate the spoils of war. Suddenly a figure in white leaps down from an overhanging bluff, saving the young marquise's honor and perhaps her life. The savior takes the distraught marquise to safety and receives her father's effusive thanks. Sound familiar? Ah, but there's a twist. The smitten young officer takes the marquise's honor himself, while she is in the depths...
Virtually all of his life, Watson has been the peer to watch. The son of a Navy enlisted man, Watson went from high school at Pine Bluff, Ark., to Vanderbilt University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1960. He joined the Marines the same year. A slender man of 150 Ibs., Watson had remarkable stamina: He set two permanent obstacle-course records at the Quantico base, where he became an officer. He bucked for the Marines' most elite outfit, the First Force Reconnaissance company, and had to survive a list of training schools that were excruciating even...
...still living in Mashpee (total pop. 2,500), but new housing developments now surround the salt marshes and ponds that the Indians once raked for scallops and quahogs. Mashpee's expensive ocean-front property is dotted with signs that shout PRIVATE, KEEP OUT! Standing on a windswept bluff above a beach road blockaded by boulders, Russell Peters, 47, president of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal council, bitterly told TIME's David Wood: "I haven't set foot on this beach for 40 years. We will get this beach back...
...prototypical Midwesterner -big, bluff, hearty, unassuming, everyone's favorite neighbor. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.-Eagle Scout, football hero, Yale Law School alumnus, 13-term Congressman, House minority leader, accidental President -never aspired to the office he inherited. Since Aug. 9, 1974, his strengths and faults have been on public display. If what makes Jimmy Carter tick still remains obscure to millions of Americans, Ford is no secret to anyone...
...people out-and-out believe in prophecy. Lucky guesses happen along now and then, and mathematicians thrive on the so-called educated guess. But a person bluff enough to crane his neck toward the future and expound on the view over yonder is all too often blushing from more than exertion by the time the scene has gotten plain enough for everyone to see. Still, if you can trace an edge here and there, catch a glint on the horizon, and toss in a grain of folk wisdom--say, about history repeating itself--divination is an awfully tempting pasttime. Politicians...