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...magic realism in which, as Politzer writes, "clefts and crags open to reveal depths beyond realistic detail." In breathless, frightened prose, Kafka built his ambivalent fears into ambiguities that empty the spirit. His heroes endure events that seem to mirror their experience, but in fact are tantalizing opposites that contradict everything they know. In The Trial Kafka's hero asserts his innocence until echoes of his own voice convince him of his guilt. Life becomes absurd in a universe whose nature is that guiltless men shall be punished. Kafka never knew the totalitarian state that his intuition prefigured...
...second inconsistency has also concerned specalization. In the past ten years the College has implemented several smaller educational programs-of which Sophomore Standing and the Freshman Seminars are the best examples-that seem to contradict the idea of General Education. General Education was designed, in part, to delay the undergraduate's entry into a field of concentration. But both Sophomore Standing and the Seminars hasten choice of a field...
...arrests seemed to contradict Nkrumah's original pronouncement that "foreign agents" had plotted his death. Nonetheless, Nkrumah's tame Ghanaian Times reported breathlessly that the "vile trio" had in one fell swoop tried to "ride the wave of the people's patience, throw dust into the eyes of the nation, trample over the leaders' forbearance, and disrupt the cause of the revolution." Thundered Nkrumah's Evening News: "The villains have been unmasked in the persons of the arch-Judas Adamafio, the lean and lanky
Divisions bothered Faith. "I'm a member of the Church of England and I believe in God," he said, "but all these divisions between all the religions-Catholics, Jews and things-all contradict God's basic law, don't they?-love thy neighbor?" Coggan swallowed hard, and at last made so bold as to disagree: "But it does matter if you believe Jesus Christ was God's supreme revelation to man. Truth does matter...
...unknown signalman. Nor did the U.S.S. Houston sink four Japanese transports off Java's Bantam Bay. They were actually torpedoed in error by the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, Toland reveals. General Imamura assumed that the Houston was responsible, and his chief of staff was too embarrassed to contradict...