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That democracy remains in office; the custom of the sharpened axiom continues. Elizabeth Bowen's "Memory is the editor of one's sense of life" is a Shakespearean perception; Peter De Vries' "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us" belongs with the best of the Edwardians. Hannah Arendt's observation compresses the century down to a sentence: "Power and violence are opposites; where one rules absolutely, the other is absent...
Around this hemisphere, it already is. Díaz trotted out the original group in 1977. Their music is the blandest kind of pop, without even a dash of Latin bounce. Yet by 1980 Menudo was performing its custom-concocted songs ("Give me a kiss/ Now we are alone/ Nobody can see us") and primitive choreography throughout Central and South America...
...frequency of fire alarms also poses a safety hazard, officials say. The repeated alarms sometimes several in a single night at the same House--have bred a lackadaisical attitude toward evacuating. Students in some Houses have made it a custom to blast their stereo to muffle the strens. "If we had a real fire, everyone in Winthrop would just fry," says Winthrop Master James A. Davis...
...belong in a diorama at the Museum of Natural History, not onstage. Yet here they are, spouting the ancient lines: "He looks as if he'd been poured into his suit and forgotten to say when." "From the collar upward he stands alone." The japes about class and custom once seemed spun of gossamer; now they appear to be composed of cobwebs. As for the champagne merriment, it seems to have been uncorked since...
...heads of adults during an Orthodox service so that he could see what was happening: "Through a crowded church passed a number of men from the Cheka, the early form of security services, in their high, triangular caps, of course without taking their hats off as is the custom in any church. They tramped through all the way to the altar and began grabbing all the sacred vessels...