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Strindberg was involved in three disastrous marriages that nearly broke his ever precarious hold on sanity. Only his ability to transmute his inner torment into dramatic art saved him. His is a classic case of what Edmund Wilson called "the wound and the bow." From the suppurating wound of his domestic life, as un-healing as was the eagle-torn liver of Prometheus, he gathered the strength to draw the bow of craft, passion and insight and to launch an arrow of dramatic significance that is still in flight more than half a century after his death...
...Brown, who handled the ball only rarely for the freshman squad two years ago, he spotlight role is a new one. He reported to camp in late August far down on the depth chart, but when Davenport had to bow out, Brown...
...missiles in their underground launchers. In light of this potential danger-and because Carter canceled the B-1 bomber program-the U.S. feels that cruise missiles will have to assume a major share of the burden for retaliation in case of a surprise Soviet attack. Thus Washington will bow to Moscow's insistence that cruises be restricted only if the Soviets reciprocate...
...been looking for an apartment for the soon to be married couple. He writes Ellis, describing a place he has found, asking her if she would like her bedroom "off the front room or farther back." Yardley says "the reference to 'your bedroom' seems to have been a bow to propriety and shyness that both Ring and Ellis felt about discussing such matters as sleeping arrangements...
Disturbed by what it perceives to be increasingly ominous Israeli stubbornness over Middle East peace negotiations, the Carter Administration last week fired a diplomatic warning shot across the bow of new Premier Menachem Begin. The shot was a carefully prepared, ten-paragraph statement that was pointedly cleared by the White House and issued just three weeks before the Premier's arrival in Washington for his first meeting with President Carter. The message, read by State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III at a news briefing, was that "negotiations must start without any preconditions" from any side. "This means," it went...