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...think, the U.S. that finds letting go of the glorious memory of World War II most difficult. The U.S. lost hundreds of thousands of men in the fighting, but its folk memory of the horror is less hellish than that of other nations. Alone among the combatants, America's heartland was untouched. So no death camps, no Barbarossa. No Hiroshima, Dresden or Coventry. No postwar period searching for scraps of food and shelter, as the Germans and Japanese had to; no dark years of rationed austerity, like most of Western Europe suffered. The rest of the world, in other words...
...long ago, I learned the true, deadly nature of cell phones. I was driving down a highway in North Carolina, marveling at the novelty of my situation (New Yorkers, contrary to what you might have heard, don't spend much time in the driver's seat). It was a glorious spring day, and the air streaming through my open window was scented with tobacco. Perfect driving conditions...
...glorious house of worship. The walls are gray, austere, adorned with pictures of important and beloved figures. Icons and talismans from faraway lands lie about, recalling passages of days gone by. A Chinese lantern adds a taste of pageantry, while a gentle murmur emanates from an acolyte...
...Harvard Lampoon). He graduated summa cum laude and immediately went to work for The New Yorker, shortly after which he published his first novel and a collection of short stories. Mind you, I don’t even like his fiction. But I do begrudge Updike his glorious biographical entry. Let’s face it: the biographical entry is just about the only place where things like academic achievements really matter, adding to the celebrity’s mystique. Mira Sorvino won a Hoopes prize for her thesis and she became a movie star and won an Oscar. Meanwhile...
...This was not some kind of glorious transcendent moment of sport. It was not the gritty aging champion somehow finding a way to overcome the detriments of age for one more comeback. This was not a refusal to leave the game despite a crippling injury, nor was it a duel to the finish with an old nemesis. This was just slobber-mouthed, dull-brained, lactic-shocked, mouth-breathing, eyes-rolled, pray-to-God, stumble-forward, ears-back, nose-running, beyond-exhaustion, knock-kneed, autopilot maneuver that out of sheer luck resulted in topping the hill rather than waking...