Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without giving anything away. The literal rendition into English of Gogol's gnarled, misshapen and often deliberately ungrammatical Russian has both rewards and dangers. Most of the Russian adages come across powerfully--as when the distraught mayor cries, "I have outlived my own mind!"--but occasionally lines fail to connect ("Both have fallen finger-first in heaven"). Gogol's sense of the absurd surfaces frequently and effectively in this translation, too--as in Khlestakov's repeated avowal that various important officials are "on a friendly foot with me." But the constant jumbling and inversion of sentence order sometimes gives...
...week. Declaring the exodus an "unprecedented emergency," President Carter called off a scheduled U.S. Navy exercise near Guantánamo Naval Base and ordered the diversion of 34 ships to help the U.S. Coast Guard assist scores of boats in distress. "If they could build a bridge that would connect Havana and Miami, there would be no one left in Cuba!" hooted one middle-aged arrival. Or almost no one, to hear the refugees. Said José Antonio Aras, 77: "President Fidel Castro will be the only one there...
...ordinary man; he planned no small plans. (Once, when a storm foiled a projected trip to Mount Xiang, he took revenge by ordering the mountain shorn of all its trees, and then painted red.) Once Shihuangdi had unified China's warring factions, he had his laborers connect many separated ramparts against the northern nomads to form the Great Wall...
...department also needs someone who is an Africanist," concentrators say. African historians in the History department will not sufficiently connect African history with the culture of Black Americans...
...Adds Cleveland Psychotherapist Jack Wiggins: "We're seeing a cumulative effect. When financial problems are added to internal problems, they tend to overwhelm people." St. Louis Psychologist Norman Matulef reports that patients are now more pessimistic, worried about their own competence and obsessed with money. "Inflation seems to connect more directly with personal dynamics," he says. "It's bad enough for those in the 'normal neurotic' range. For those with more primitive organization in their personalities, it is even more frightening...