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...course, I knew that my name is the most superficial, arbitrary thing about me. The deeper elements of my life that I wanted to leave behind--forgive me if I don't go into too much detail here--would take a hell of a lot more work than filling out a form differently and I knew it. If changing names from Alan to Eric was the only thing I could change about myself that fall, it would be pretty pathetic indeed. Still, switching names was going to be emblematic of the new me, a constant reminder to myself that...
...sandwiches. Then I couldn't lift sandwiches. Soup in a glass through a straw, I joked. It wasn't funny. The first time someone offered to feed me, I cried right in Annenberg, furtively, making like I was scratching my nose but actually sopping up tears, hoping like hell that nobody noticed. Invincible Harvard Student that I hoped...
...getting shuttered. "I don't know, Dickey," Bush said. He was about to turn 40. He had been telling his employees that the hard times would last a few months, that they would just ride 'em out. But he let down his guard. "I don't know where the hell this is all going," he said, watching a helicopter touch down at the bigger, still successful operation across the way. "Dickey," he said suddenly, "you need to get out of here. You need to go where there's some action...
...your article "A Surge of Teen Spirit" [SPECIAL REPORT, May 31], you focused on evangelical teens, a group with the ultimate superiority complex. They believe that they are God's chosen and that those who disagree with them are doomed to hell. Evangelism and the feelings of inferiority it breeds in people of different faiths are hardly the way to prevent school carnage. Religion in public schools can only polarize a community that needs, now more than ever, to be held together. RAMAN KHANNA Springfield, Ohio...
...course, there are those whose intentions were malign but not all that influential, whose perniciousness petered out. Father Coughlin's anti-Semitic rants on the wireless never really amounted to much. Preacher Billy Sunday swore that when Prohibition finally came, "Hell would be rent forever." Fat chance of that happening anytime soon. George Wallace's cry of "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" lasted only a decade before it was relegated to the dustbin of ugly 19th century prejudices. Call this the When Bad People Don't Do All That Much Damage theory of history...