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...reminded of S.J. Perelman, who wrote: "Outside of a spring lamb trotting into a slaughterhouse, there is nothing in the animal kingdom as innocent and foredoomed as the new purchaser of a country place. The moment he scratches his signature on the deed, it is open season and no limit...
...difficult to imagine a more perfect economy of drama. The Pope's deed spoke, not his words, and it spoke with the full authority of his mortal life and the danger to which Agca had subjected it. The meaning of John Paul's forgiveness was profoundly Christian. He embraced his enemy and pardoned...
...isolated, politically motivated bombing, of course, is hardly unknown in the U.S. A bomb left in a corridor outside the Senate chamber caused some $250,000 damage to the Capitol last month, and a group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed it had done the deed to protest U.S. "imperialism" abroad. Various Puerto Rican independence groups have touched off explosions in New York City, including four against federal and local government buildings last New Year's Eve and four others on Wall Street in March...
...Memorial Stadium, impishly referred to on fall Saturdays as the third largest Nebraska township (pop. 73,650), a principle has been literally etched in stone: "Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory." The words seem too high-blown to be associated with modern major-college football. Putting aside the moral excesses, just the logistical ones are awesome. And the Nebraska program, like so many others, is overgrown to the point of hilarity, but not to the exclusion of charm. Five years is the common hitch for a Nebraska football player...
...victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory. -By Tom Callahan...