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...blue eyes one can hear the quiet bark, feel the dogged bite. Stevens lives to serve his master and to rule the servants. Upstairs his step is tentative and his eyes aim for the carpet. Downstairs, as Chairman of the Board, he has a sturdy stride and an imperious gaze. He knows his place all too well. He believes it his job to hear nothing while above, to surrender to no soft impulse when below. That is why Stevens was deaf to the nasty political business that took place in the drawing rooms and why he was blind...
...order to celebrate The Immigrant Experience once more, as Sidhwa intends to do, the gaze of the immigrant and their self-revelations in their new setting must also change. Sidhwa fails here because many of her characters arrive at the same conclusions about America that their antecedents have. Manek assiduously instructs Feroza on how to avoid the difficulties he encountered in coming to the U.S. after she decides to extend her three-month holiday to a four-year college education. He accompanies his instruction on opening milk cartons or tamper-proof vials with the caveat, "Remember this: If you have...
...panoramic view of the Byzantine style apse and the lugubrious countenances of the clergy. In the midst of all the pomp and circumstance of the Church and the court nobles, two smirking boyars (nobles) dump huge baskets of gold coins over the young czar's pointy crown. Ivan's gaze remains stoic as if he were merely caught in an everyday downpour. We know immediately that Einstein is on our side; we are certain after the initial bit of hesitation that this is no dry three-hour history lecture. He is prepared to let us use our imaginations about this...
...media treats Bob Dole as if he were President--and he acts accordingly. Gingrich, the House minority whip, captures headlines with his quotability and his flamboyance. House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt has never met a TV camera he hasn't liked. And Michel, the quiet man with the kindly gaze, remains in the background and does his job. He is certainly the least wellknown of Congress's leaders, and most Americans would not recognize him if they passed him on the street...
...outside world averts its gaze, one reason may be, or so relief workers believe, that with the cold war over, Angola no longer has strategic value. Another is that much of the country's misery is confined to small pockets of inaccessible territory. One such pocket is Malanje, 330 km east of Luanda and one of the largest provincial capitals. Despite a population of 250,000, swollen by the arrival of 50,000 refugees during the past year, it remains a ghost town. At a government health office, 100 children, mostly orphans, beg for meals. In a center...