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Crone does not see his receivers quickly enough, and when he does see them, he is unsure which one to throw the ball to. When one watches Crone fade back to pass one witnesses the epitome of indecision, and when he completes an serial, one has the feeling that it is the direct result of Divine intervention rather than skill...
These are directions in which the archaeology of knowledge might be pursued further. They, like the works which have preceded The Archaeology of Knowledge, will expand, test, and redefine the usefulness of the whole inquiry. Foucault accepts the possibility that his vocabulary, style, and method may fade away, or that they may become the victims of the proven propensity of social science to make itself its own object. He knows that the full importance of a discourse can only be grasped in contrast to the changes that precede and follow it. What can be said now is that if Foucault...
...beauty of a calm sea and sunstroked sails, and a joyous on-deck dance. In America, new wonders and horrors are evoked: the awesome countryside and native paraphenalta, the strangeness of the language and the relative social freedom. And slowly, the Swedes become a small community. Old prejudices fade before new awareness and necessity. The whore becomes a lady, the preacher humble, the Neilsons leaders...
...will continue to respond the way we do. The pace of life has tended to produce instant nostalgia, and this may happen even before the Stones are gone. They might outlive us into another generation that needs then help along the pimply road of adolescence or they might just fade away...
...direct authority to order rollbacks of increases that flagrantly exceeded those standards. What changes Nixon might make in present controls is not at all clear. Administration officials hope that as inflation calms down they can progressively loosen the reins and make more exemptions. They expect the program ultimately to fade away-but how soon, no one will even guess...