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There was a certain nostalgia in the episode, a glimpse of the 19th century days when Washington was a more crudely physical place-the brawling floor of the House was called "the bear garden" and Vice President Martin Van Buren wore a brace of pistols to preside over the Senate. In the terms of Charles Reich (The Greening of America), this was not even Consciousness I, but Consciousness ½. A day or two after the Boggs-Mitchell match, the former's House colleague, Edward Hebert, telephoned: "Hale, Hale, sign nothing! Don't do a thing till...
CARLOS SAURA'S The Garden of Delights is a cultural parable, and like most such parables, its narrative surface verges on the inane...
...lake, Antonio begins rocking the boat spasmodically, pathetically slapping at his wife with an oar, muttering all the while, "An American tragedy, An American tragedy." There is more here than a comic allusion to Dreiser's novel. Saura has finally defined the object of his attacks, for The Garden of Delights is indeed an American tragedy, the tragedy of a stagnating political consciousness confronted with grotesque images of its past...
Bauer, who hails from South Norwalk, Conn.. won the title at the National Horse Show held in Madison Square Garden last November S. "I was the favorite, which is a very tough position. A million little things can go wrong, and there is so much pressure," Bauer said last week...
Getting to Radcliffe from Harvard Square was the first problem. We walked, my parents and I, for what seemed like miles, asking directions from dozens of long-haired girls on bicycles; we followed that goddamned brick wall down Garden St. only to get lost again. I now suspect my parents were as helpless as I: Harvard Square is a far cry from Long Island, still farther from the Bronx. But we made it (late); we made it to Radcliffe Yard, and collapsed in the waiting room of the Dean of Admissions. We made it to the Waiting Room and waited...