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...collection also touches on Sacks’ lifelong infatuation with water. An avid swimmer, Sacks once noted in an interview with the Harvard Gazette, “I feel the desire to immerse myself in another element which is uncontrollable, mysterious, beautiful, rhythmic, and which is related to my desire to engage with poetic language as a medium...
...book of poems,” Wallace Stevens once remarked, “is a damned serious affair.” These words are particularly apt when applied to a book of poems that, like Necessity, have a certain gestalt element and that lose something when separated from one another. To read Necessity, is to follow a coherent set of Sacks’ ruminations on a variety of subjects—to be a participant, if only fleetingly, in Sacks’ beautifully realized spiritual odyssey. By Stevens’ and, for that matter, just about any other reasonable metric...
...outside input - it is bound to create crises like this one. It has no real means of self-correction. The system creates incentives for secrecy and cover-ups that are often just as bad as the crime. But none of that is on the table. In fact, a critical element for recovery - boards of inquiry composed of lay people, not just clergy - was not even mentioned in the text...
...unifying element of all these California tremors—I did not have to experience any of them. However, Saturday morning I was inexplicably awakened from eight hours of unconscious bliss, only to experience the faint yet extremely unsettling rumbling that I had felt so many times before...
...Palestinian suicide bombings, a wave of Arab anger is sure to follow. In the past, most of the rants and threats turned out to be just that - empty talk. But some Western diplomats and Middle East analysts worry that, this time, the Arabs might mean it. The new element, they say, is a hardening Arab belief that despite years of peacemaking, Israel will never allow an independent Palestinian state and that the U.S. will support Israel no matter what - and the Arabs cannot stand back and do nothing. "It smells a little like May 1967," says an Arab diplomat, referring...