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...born monologuist, which helps Aranson mightily. The novel is replete with presentiments of drama, explicitly written-in stage directions that invaluably guide a fine actor. Thus Ahab's first appearance is heralded by the words: "He stood before us with a crucifixion in his face." Aranson turns that cue into a reality...
Taking his cue from 2007, Arthur C. Clarke's classic science-fiction novel Thompson suggests that the seemingly solid fabric of mundane existence has gaps, where "the millennial imagination of the future is interrupting the daily news of the present." Spot the gap and you can see forward into history...
...students on the Harvard Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) also issued a report at the same time supporting a three year A. B. program...
...Here I have a cue card for an early Hitler speech," the auctioneer announced in his nasal Bavarian accent. "The words that Hitler penciled on it repeat the pattern to be followed in his harangue: 'November 1918-Criminals-The Political Situation Today-Our Irrevocable Demands-The Coming Elections-Our Candidates-Our Tactics-The Jews.' " Bidding in the stuffy auction room on Munich's fashionable Maximilianstrasse started briskly. The scruffy cue card was quickly knocked down to a broker acting on behalf of an anonymous British collector. Price...
NPAC and PCPJ, while co-sponsoring the same event, are pushing slightly different demands. NPAC, taking its cue from SMC, is pushing one issue (the war), and making one demand-immediate and total withdrawal of all American forces from Southeast Asia. NPAC organizers argue that "set-the-date" withdrawal demands are illegitimate, because Americans have no right to set conditions on the Vietnamese...