Word: gloriousness
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...people. He is, they complain, more Roman than Greek. They, for their own part, continue to labour under the misapprehension that they hold a special place in the civilized world—why, we Romans are still regarded as barbarians by these people; a people who cling to their glorious past, and, in so doing, fail to recognise this, the late evening of their prominence...
Lethem is one of those novelists who get better book by book, from his early science-fiction noodlings to the hard-boiled, atmospheric Motherless Brooklyn. The Fortress of Solitude is a glorious, chaotic, raw novel, and God knows there are any number of ways to pick it apart. Lethem has adopted a furiously literary, poetic style that would look overwrought in the pages of an undergraduate literary magazine, and he gambles on a risky element of magical realism: the boys discover a magic ring that intermittently (it's capricious) gives them superpowers. But Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York...
...that the Northeastern U.S. has suffered the largest power outage in history [COVER STORY, Aug. 25] and the economy has lost billions of dollars through idled offices and factories, spoiled food and interrupted travel, maybe President Bush and the Republican congressional leadership would like to tell us how the glorious "free market" is going to prevent further catastrophic blackouts. Maybe Dick Cheney's ultrasecret energy task force has that information in its notes, which the Vice President adamantly refuses to share with his employers, the American people. STEPHEN KRIZ Maple Grove, Minn...
...this early stage it's likely that Dean enjoys support from those to his left who don't know the fine points of his proposals as well as they know the fine volleys of his rhetoric. In that sense, it's hard to imagine Dean's glorious season ending without disappointment. Either he will alienate the mainstream by tacking left in order to keep his troops in their combat sandals, or, more likely, they will shed a tear when they learn who he really is. Last week I asked Dean's mother Andree Maitland Dean of East Hampton, N.Y., whether...
...published a short description of what new arrivals should expect from their American hosts. "A Chinese student's first visit to America is most fascinating," it related. "By the uneducated he is usually regarded as a laundryman. By the educated he is from an ancient nation that has a glorious past but is at present 'unable to govern herself,' 'run by Reds,' 'disturbed by school boys' and terrorized by Turks and bandits. Some good Christians sincerely rejoice at seeing another 'heathen saved,' while many sociable hostesses remark repeatedly about the good English he speaks, Chinese embroidery and silks...