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Jumped or fell Newspapers politely circumscribe the early morning leaps into New York traffic It makes a difference if we take ourselves by the hand and lead ourselves over the brink, or if, putting one foot in front of the other one day, we reach the edge of the building and drop...
Ruth and I are suspended in time, not the time of the vagabond, but a time without issue. When we learn to control our fall, we may once again take hands and lead each other over the brink, eyes wide open. But there will have been a succession of days, days without meaning, false spring days, that are overland with our nonexistent futures. And however controlled our flight, those days will be a part of our nonexistent past. We will never again let the vagabond pass into our lives, and, carefree, pass out again...
...fact he would probably urinate in his elitist tweeds to know that his new book is like The Waste Land. The comparison, however, is not between the final products but between the origins of the two works: both were written by men close to--if not over--the brink. However, while Eliot's masterpiece was what the poet called "rhythmical grumbling." Burgess's piece of trash car only be described as infantile whining...
Certainly there was no hard evidence to support the rumors that Brezhnev was on the brink of physical or political disablement. Nonetheless, a few faint signs and portents over the past two months pointed to a possible diminution of Brezhnev's vigor and perhaps even of his commanding position in the Kremlin. Some observers at the Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford thought that Brezhnev was not his usual doughty, ebullient self. Although he held up well during his initial seven-hour meeting with the U.S. President, he slept late the following day and looked peaked. In Paris...
Most Americans, though inflation has undeniably shrunk their dollars, celebrated Thanksgiving last week in the midst of a national bounty that remains largely unabated. At the same tune, many people in the world's poorest nations were on the brink of starvation, and an inevitable twinge of conscience accompanied the realization that so little here equals so much there. Boston-based Oxfam-America, an organization devoted to worldwide famine relief, sponsored a recent day-long nationwide fast; the money that would otherwise have been spent on food will provide emergency aid and self-help agricultural programs to needy countries...