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Ezra is the dreamer who nurtures the novel's most enduring illusion. He runs a restaurant as if his soups and stews could cure loneliness and disappointment. The permutations of food and woe inspire him: "Why not a restaurant full of refrigerators, where people came and chose the food they wanted? . . . Or maybe he could install a giant fireplace, with a whole steer turning slowly on a spit. You'd slice what you liked onto your plate and sit around in armchairs eating and talking with the guests at large. Then again, maybe he would start serving only...
Though Off the Wall by and large treats the Journal with respect, some harsher thrusts are directed at the paper's supposedly smug and selfish readers. One story reports that market forces have diverted distribution of a drug that will cure leprosy to use instead in treating tennis elbow. The jokes range from the incisive to the tasteless, and even the racist and antiSemitic. An Op-Ed column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism...
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...organizations perenially short of cash. With judicious and fair support of campus groups--and a campus-wide party or two during its first couple of terms--the council just might give students more of an opportunity for united activism. We remain skeptical of whether even a revamped structure can cure apathy, but it certainly cannot hurt...