Word: fleetingness
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Along with ennui, tankermen are prey to fleeting fears. In the past two months, mysterious explosions have sunk three tankers off the coast of Africa. Last week four crewmen were killed when a Swedish tanker blew up in a Hamburg drydock. Loaded, the Europoort carries enough oil to pollute beaches...
Similarly, during a Dziga-Vertovian picture-taking walk through Central Park, Alfred can only capture his subjects' surfaces, or fleeting glimpses of pastoral beauty. Alfred reaches the conclusion that in a compartmentalized city hit by random violence, a life-style and home must be staked out, and allegiance paid to...
Salvation through Memory. For Borges, that sacrifice is blindness, a condition that unites him with the rest of suffering mankind. In all of 20th century literature-a literature shadowed by darkness and blindness-there can hardly be a more powerful intimation of union through suffering than Borges' fiercely compressed...
Few things in Mexico ran as smoothly as the Ciudad Juárez quickie divorce mill. The Juárez court severed 43,000 American marriages a year. Allowed to stand in much of the U.S., the divorces required the fleeting appearance of only one spouse, while the other merely...
ONE FLEETING, final confrontation. It is the end of a heavy autumn day, probably a Thursday, Sybil is walking back from the Coop, carrying all the books for two new courses, a lamp-shade and a box of ginger snaps. Coming towards her, she recognizes Stanley, an old boyfriend whom...