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...could have been an occasion for pure celebration: a mighty warship sailing into port on Memorial Day after an exhausting mission showing the nation's flag in distant seas. Yet the joyful welcome was clouded by a growing concern. For all of its sophisticated weaponry, America is facing a shortage of the most valuable military resource of all: manpower. The return of the U.S.S. Nimitz made the point symbolically, and President Carter made it directly as he stood on the nuclear carrier's gigantic flight deck and praised its crew...
...advantage of them. Harvard should not have to wait on you hand and foot." She echoes many of her classmates when she says she has learned "more from the different people than from the books." Harvard has allowed Greis's attacking style to blossom; and some day, in some distant sand trap or in some distant office, when she has to attack to achieve, Leslie Greis will not hesitate...
...Ball propounds the thesis of negative action for this country, a policy that has reduced us to a hesitant, cringing nation with no real friends and certainly no respect. His whole policy is do nothing, beg your allies for help and just hope that some time in the distant future things may work...
...sense of the cubist moment can never come again. It is almost as distant, in its dulcet and inexhaustible optimism, as the faith that built Beauvais. Cubism was the climax of an urban culture that had been assembling itself in Paris since the mid-19th century, a culture renewed by rapid transitions and shifting modes. It was art's first response to the torrent of signs unleashed by a new technology. Not for nothing did Picasso inscribe "Our future is in the air" on several of his cubist still lifes; tellingly, Picasso's nickname for Braque was "Wilbur," after Wilbur...
...claustrophobic tumble of his brain, the world has a habit of collapsing into melancholy. Poor overread Albert warns himself about Keats' "egotistical sublime." His rich interior is forever ababble with Kant and Schopenhauer and his own obsessive, bewildered mutterings. A distant descendant of Leopold Bloom, cousin to the anguished intellectual comics of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and even Woody Allen, Albert negotiates a shambling, rueful passage through his mid-40s. He has made Who's Who in America (a New York magazine writer and editor), but "lately he has the feeling that he is not so much pursuing...