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BOOKS . . . THE GOOD BOOK: Eighty-one pages into 'THE GOOD Book' (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who in 1958 defended his abstinence 'based on biblical principles (although) not based on biblical precepts or biblical practice.' Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group?s persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy...
...barking Hollywood retorts--creepy but all too useful. In the daily battlefield of misunderstandings and impatient busyness, such locutions as Don't go there, In your dreams and What part of no don't you understand? are Nerf-like weaponry: When you're blind with anger or exasperation, you grab the nearest item of modular meanness. Of course, not all coolster coinages are overtly fightin' words. Indeed, some affect affectlessness: Same old, same old; Blah blah blah; Yadda yadda yadda. But given the right nuances, indifference can pack a wallop: Yadda will outsnide blah, for instance but wither before...
...tell anyone. If you have too much work, as most of us do, go sit in Widener, deep in the stacks, or in the giant reading room on the second floor, where the echo of a cough resounds louder than a wrecking ball. Stay there and study all day. Grab lunch or dinner at Loker, then go back to Widener again. Better yet, if you can afford a day away from your work, take a real break. Go to the beach in the middle of winter, to the Public Gardens, the Museum of Fine Arts, Mount Auburn Cemetery...
...adolescents. This is a big mistake in the drug wars. I asked myself: "Did hypocrisy matter when Courtney was little?" Absolutely not. Without any reference to my own early years of experimenting with electricity, I insisted that she not stick her curious fingers into electric sockets. Don't grab Johnny's sand bucket, I would tell her, although I'm sure I was a major bucket grabber. Don't eat with your fingers, I instructed. Well, I still do that...
Still, right or wrong, the Israelis are convinced that Assad has a scheme in his head: to use special forces to grab and hold a small piece of the Golan Heights, creating a crisis that would compel the U.S. to intervene and restart negotiations, presumably resulting in Syria's recovery of the Golan. Because Assad understands well that his forces are inferior to Israel's, no one thinks he would provoke a full-scale war. But that might still be the result, were Israel to respond to a limited land grab, as it has threatened, with a disproportionately severe counterattack...