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...wish we still had Nixon to hate? Meanwhile, he and Mailer probably voted for Carter, just the same as you and me. The sentiments are still there--as Mailer wrote in 1958, the shits are still out to get us. But who are they? Definitions blur, and only one thing remains clear. As Dorothy said, (and as one of the chapters in Gravity's Rainbow begins)-- "Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas any more...
...Portland that night, slept in the Greyhound station and next morning got on the eastbound bus and didn't get off until I had reached St. Louis two and a half days later, having seen the Rockies and Salt Lake City and the Great Plains as one great blur en route. Thanks to a friend in St. Louis, I had a nice warm bed and some home cooking again. I gave up all pretense to membership in the great club of hippies, freaks, road people and adventures. Six days, four friends and Cincinnati and Philadelphia later, I was home...
...competition will further blur the marketing lines between the older travel-and-entertainment cards like American Express, which grew up specializing in hotels, airlines, rental cars and restaurants, and the bank cards that originally focused on local retail purchases. Citicorp and other big banks that have been moving into cards and checks on a nationwide scale argue that they have been forced to do so in self-defense, claiming they have lost a lot of consumer credit business since World War II to other loan suppliers, including not only the card firms but department-store charge accounts and the auto...
This god's-eye view tends to blur more than it clarifies. "English settlement ... came somewhat later than depicted," says an exasperating prefatory note to Chesapeake, which also mentions that Steed and Turlock are invented names, "but it did occur at a spot only 23 miles to the north." Fiction with heavy doses of reality and reportage is not precisely history; history in which the names and places are not quite right is not yet fiction. Falling between two schools, Chesapeake is less than some of its parts: an agreeable, disposable epic destined for the summer beach, the fall...
...impending years of academic engineering cannot blur the memory that the Core plan was for several months the focus of heated student opposition, even as the Faculty prepared for its final vote. For Rosovsky--who admits that opposition was inevitable in the Faculty, among professional educators of differing academic philosophies--this was the part of the past year that he finds most distasteful. He dismisses most expressions of student opposition to the Core, and instead believes the "student media" generated most of the opposition itself with "a systematic campaign against the Core...