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...first of the four apartment buildings will be ready for occupancy in January 1976 and will contain 93 units. The buildings will descend in height as they approach the river, ranging from nine stories to three stories tall...
...newsmen and occultists descend upon the miracle worker, Maloney tests his vision. Is it fact or figment? He attempts, mentally, to remove a single item. Suddenly its underside is marked MADE IN JAPAN. The scholar becomes a prisoner of his obsession, forced to preserve the dream by repeating it every night. But reality is inexorable. Restaurants and boutiques spring up around collection and collector: the Florence Nightingale Tearoom, the Oscar Wilde Way Out. Spectators come to gawk at the thinker, not the thought; finally even the erotic kinks are removed by relentless commercial vulgarity...
...essential criticism of Kissinger is that he has made American diplomacy too much of a one-man show. Says a Democratic adviser to several Presidents: "When you personalize foreign policy to the extent he has, you must be prepared to rise with success and descend with failure. You live by the sword and you die by the sword." Jun Tsunoda, who advises the Japanese government on U.S. affairs, makes the same point. "Diplomacy in today's complex world is too big a job for one man to handle in person...
Wander down to the street, finally find the new station. Descend into the depths of Boston. Orange train arrives, uneventfully. Uneventful trip to Washington Street. Uneventful crush pouring out of Filene's Bargain Basement. But then, at last, a welcome return to the comfortable familiarity of the Red Line and Harvard Square...
...specter of Leopold Bloom haunts this book... The easiest entry into its rhythms and movement is to recall the Bloomsday odyssey. I go out into the alien world, hard fearful, lonely. My afternoon stroll passes Sandymount strand: lustful, yearning, fleshy, I descend into a blasphemous bedeviled Nighttown.... and then I wander home...