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Despite their differences, however, the two groups share the anxiety of outnumbered usurpers. They dwell in the past, using jargon and jingoism, history and mythology to erect walls around themselves and ward off the unknown. The white South African, contends Crapanzano, exists in a state of suspended animation. His waiting produces "feelings of powerlessness, helplessness . . . and all the rage that these feelings evoke...
...familiar concern of this kind is that computers may erect barriers that will isolate students and divide teachers from learners. If students have to spend more time with their new machines, they may become more solitary and avoid the human contact that does so much to enrich the university experience. If it really takes 100 or 200 hours to prepare a good program suitable for an hour's instruction, professors may withdraw to develop software leaving students to work alone at their consoles. There is also a risk of overlooking subtler benefits that come from older, less "efficient" methods...
...reputation rests, for Americans, almost wholly on one painting. It was no slight thing to have painted The Sleeping Gypsy, by now perhaps the most famous dream image in Western art. The silhouette of a sniffing lion, with one unwinking yellow eye and a tail stiffly outstretched, its tip erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like a pale...
...billion in credit that he raised from bankers and partners like Independent Texas Oilmen Cyril Wagner Jr. and Jack Brown. "Our bid was extremely bold," says Tassin. "It was an incredibly intuitive reading by Boone." Pickens correctly anticipated that Gulf's top executives would underestimate him and fail to erect an effective defense. "They were not street fighters," Pickens says...
Outside the White House last week, construction workers toiled in the chill weather to erect a reviewing booth and grandstand for the Inaugural parade, one of the first events of Ronald Reagan's second term. The laying of each plank and pipe was dictated by blueprints...