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...analysis of the nature of parody than the very good one that appeared as preface to the anthology he was reviewing. And it is somehow endearing to know that the same hand that wrote The New Yorker's sane, knowledgeable review of James Joyce's recently discovered fragment Giacomo Joyce, also turned out the epic 1960 farewell to Ted Williams, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu...
Serendipity struck a group of Ohio State University geologists last December as they picked away at the stratified sediment in an ancient stream bed high in the frigid Transantarctic Mountains. Investigating rock strata to learn more about the Antarctic ice sheet, they uncovered a small fossilized bone fragment with continent-sized implications...
...Viet Nam instead. But his slow-starting challenge* to Johnson needed the thrust of a New Hampshire confrontation, hazardous though it is. Governor John King and Senator Thomas McIntyre are heading a write-in campaign for Johnson. Moreover, a write-in effort for Robert Kennedy could fragment the anti-L.B.J. vote that McCarthy hopes to capture. In another show of pugnacity, McCarthy hit both at Johnson and at critics of Johnson's Viet Nam policy who have refused to join McCarthy's cause, most notably Bobby Kennedy. To prove that it really wants peace, McCarthy said...
Examining single objects in depth can also be rewarding here. Closely investigate the Ferman (signature) of Sultan Suleiman a calligraphic masterpiece, or a large fragment of a sixteenth century map of the world that was thought to lie on the outer edges of the Atlantic...
These audio-visual flurries are imposed on the play and blow up any chance of dramatic development within scenes. They fragment the play and make it painfully obvious that the dialogue is also fragmented--little blips of exposition that are never again used, meaningless historical name-dropping. And the actual Lincoln speeches and quotes from Scripture that come from the loudspeakers when the play has one of its seizures make Kirstein's rhetoric look sick...