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...Bronowski's Ascent of Man. In the series, Galbraith jaunts around the world to various spots of particular import in his study, strolling along the countryside of Marx's youth and surveying the barren wastes of Death Valley (which he offers as an example of the New York-Philadelphia corridor after World War III). As a substitute--a good one--for the varied film clips that bring his series to life, The Age of Uncertainty is studded with more than a hundred photographs and etchings of famous economists revolutionaries, Tibetan palaces, and myriad other unpredictable items...
Both Papafrangos and Booth prefer the rooming arrangements in the Quad Houses to those at the Yard and River. "Corridor life is really great. It's much better than entries," Papafrangos feels. "When you live in entries, you have to make a conscious effort to visit other people. On a corridor, you just wander down the hall into someone's room. It's much closer, like a family," she adds...
Print Casebook 2 cited the calligraphic design of the mural, which is located in the middle-level corridor linking the Pusey Library with the Widener stack, as "evocative of the tradition of literature and history which the library represents...
...memory by memory. The repeated staccato phrases throughout A Book of Common Prayer, like the responsive readings in a hymn book, form the kernels of the emerging past for Charlotte. Like a slightly too-intense light, which reveals the dinginess of a tenement corridor, Didion effectively uses these chorus-like chants and staccato phrases to amplify the thoughts Charlotte is trying to block. They are echoes of the past that climb up into the present. In much the same way that Marin uses revolutionary rhetoric a deny her past, Charlotte uses a process of selective remembering: it is unsurprising then...
Whatever the plan's shortcomings, even its critics give Carter the highest marks for focusing national attention on the problem, for ending the period of inertia and corridor infighting within the Administration, and for opening an intense, even vehement, national debate...