Word: cannot
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Jeffrey L. Smith, parking office manager, also said that his office provides staff members interested in carpooling with lists of other University members living near them. But the University "certainly cannot provide enough parking for everyone," he added...
...students weren't up on their Mao." Had they been, they might have come upon a 1927 essay in which the future Chairman identified atrocity as a desirable power-holding tactic. "To right a wrong," Mao wrote, "it is necessary to exceed the proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper limits being exceeded . . . To put it bluntly, it is ((sometimes)) necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror...
WARTIME by Paul Fussell (Oxford University; $19.95). Humankind, wrote T.S. Eliot, cannot bear very much reality. In this richly detailed historical study of American and British behavior during World War II, Fussell argues that the horror was of such magnitude that participants -- civilians as much as soldiers -- survived it only by reliance on euphemism and illusions: our lads were all brave heroes, for example, while theirs were sadistic thugs. Fussell has a sharp eye for the bawdry and the Catch-22 absurdities of combat. But hard to find in his barrages of withering contempt is much sense that this...
...save her from the coming chaos. His heart is good, but his head is clouded: he has no thought for the practical realities of her future in an alien land, only for the sweet moment of his own chivalry. Even that fails. In this revamping of Madama Butterfly, Chris cannot get to Kim before heading home...
...other hand, everything to do with proposing infinite relationships between things and seeing how many of them at a time can make visual sense. You still cannot walk into the Cubist room. But that is partly -- or so the paintings quietly argue -- because you are already in it. It is the space of relativity, the benign and long-lost mental space of the early 20th century, when newness still seemed paradisiacal...