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Roger Rosenblatt's suggested response to a potential book borrower ("I'll break your arm, you bastard!") is understandable, but far too mild. The gentle-minded Mr. Rosenblatt is a pale descendant of the medieval book lover who, in the same circumstances, customarily responded by suggesting disembowelment, torture...
A 1974 Marxist revolution deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who had more or less looked out for the Falashas. Declaring himself a direct descendant of Solomon. Selassie used the existence of Ethiopian Jews to legitimate his claim. But the Marxists who deposed him had no such interest in protecting the...
Next to the pocket battlefields and miniature gridirons made possible by the microprocessor revolution, though, talking insides is old hat. There is one descendant of the line left, a Mork (of "and Mindy" fame) doll. For under $10 you can pull his string and he will say "Na-No, Na...
The Rutland contest is the descendant of a smaller and less volcanic gathering held each summer for eight years in Newfane, Vt., until it outgrew the five-acre tract owned by the father of Promoter Bill Morse. Morse, 29, a quick-talking flea market proprietor who wears a Stetson, a...
Burnout may be the late 20th century descendant of neurasthenia and the nervous breakdown-the wonderfully matter-of-fact all-purpose periodic collapse that our parents were fond of. Burnout is preeminently the disease of the thwarted; it is a frustration so profound that it exhausts body and morale. Burnout...