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By week's end the hostage case was back in the shadows. Something was moving, but it was not on paper and not in the diplomatic cables and not visibly near the top of George Bush's agenda. Bush plays this dreadful game for the wasting lives of six Americans...
It was the same under the Nazis. Germans were the emperors of Europe then, but still suffering from a complex of being powerless victims, having to follow orders. Many of us always wavered between arrogance and submission. After the war, for instance, it was dreadful to see how eager some...
A. We are not only victims. Communist oppression was much more subtle than it was under the Nazis. We made our peace with this dreadful system. I was always ashamed that we were so quiescent.
The same applies to the liberal use of quotation marks, which run through the books like tiny underscoring arrows. The Message to the Planet is overly fond of this intrusive nudging. Here is the latest Murdoch female masochist in full lament: "Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish...
Artists have favorite tropes, metaphors to which they resort semiconsciously over and over again. Rowlandson's chief one was the opposition between youth and age, freshness and decay, virility and impotence. He was not in any real sense a political artist -- unlike his colleague James Gillray. Beneath Rowlandson's comedy...