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...this is the cost we pay: It will be at the cost of a custom that has prevailed in this commonwealth for many years. It's much more than a 'blue law.' It represents a custom... This is not some blue-nosed, blue-stocking Yankee thing...
Kabul is a city in mourning. According to age-old custom, red banners have been flying throughout the capital. The daily 5-min. death notices broadcast by state-owned Radio Kabul have lasted from 15 to 25 min. Since the invasion in 1979, tales of carnage have been as ubiquitous in Kabul as the Soviet army. This time, however, the Afghan capital is reeling from a disaster that perhaps no one intended...
...taste for tall living has not given much lift to furniture firms since most executives have their desks custom-made. Shinn sketched an antique schoolmaster's lectern that he came across in New England, and had a carpenter copy the design. A specially built stand-up desk may cost $4,000 or more...
...create an identity for herself but rather to find a universal past or one that can be shared with at least other Jews. In a poem somewhat formidably titled "A Short History of Judaic thought in the Twentieth Century," the poet scratches her bead at the intellectual custom of answering a question with a question. If it is forbidden to touch a dying person except to remove him from a burning house. Pastan asks, who can she touch' She writes: aren't we all dying' You smile your negotiation smile and ask but aren't all our houses burning...
...Piquapi Memory, discovers the terrible truth about her impending rite of passage. Of course familiar pressures override her objections to a life of crippled submission: in the end she must choose between such a life and a kind of mystical suicide. That the child's mother has abandoned the custom of performing the binding herself because she lears her daughter's wrath puts the ironic icing on an already irony-laden cake. The story is funny, though sad, and its off-beat combination of ancient tradition and '80s morality sets the trendy tone that dominates the rest of the book...