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...opera occur in the final act of Verdi's Tommaso Jefferson, when the desolate exile sings an aria to a lost ladylove in America: "O, Susannah, non piangere per me!"(O, Susannah, don't you cry for me!). But I am an old man and I digress. If you want to know more about these colorful characters, you can purchase my book Romantic Rebels, which is a mere ?4.9 at the Coop...
...that party's Central Committee, as well as in the Israeli Parliament? On the other hand could anyone tell me the number of Jews in the Egyptian Arab-Socialist Union, or in the Syrian or Iraqi Ba'ath Party, or perhaps in the Jordanian Parliament? But to digress to a discussion of the double standard of morality where Israel is concerned is not my aim here...
...question for seniors became how to fill a given number of pages. Put this way, the senior thesis metamorphosed into the senior-long-research-paper and was that much less attractive. But at this point we must digress for a moment. Parallel to the development of the long specialist paper came two other changes that, taken together, tend to heighten seniors' ambivalence about this new monster. One was the growth of an ideology that holds that student life must be fun every minute. This belief has a surprisingly diverse constituency, running from jocks to aristocrats to the endangered Harvard hipsters...
Unfortunately, Coleman's usually readable and direct style is marred by his tendency to digress upon boring or inconsequential topics with a numbing, often primer-like tone. Coleman's explanation of the Federal Reserve Bank reads like a government pamphlet and never explains why he "feels proud" just to be associated with "presidents of corporations...
...lies. Anna deludes herself with a memory of a once happy marriage; Andreas, the humanitarian, is incapable of communicating with anybody; Elis, the photographer, has catalogued every twisted emotion registered on the human face; his wife is locked in insomnia. Intermittently Bergman breaks the narrative as the actors digress on the parts they play -- the work of the artist carries its own stamp of absurdity. Brattle...