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Carter the perfectionist is evident in the woodshop. He never uses nails or screws, but painstakingly cuts and notches the joints together. He prefers hand tools to electric for more quality. He has actually made several of his own tools; among them are a hollow auger and a bow saw, and they hang neatly on the wall. He began explaining how to cut chair rungs to size and showed a little exasperation when he thought his visitor's attention was wandering. Carter puts his name on all his pieces with a branding iron. And he pointed...
...same day he sent his letter on school prayer to the Senate, Attorney General William French Smith notified House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino that careful examination of a bill designed to prohibit lower federal courts from ordering busing plans "indicates that [its provisions] are constitutional." This was also a hollow victory for the New Right: although the bill has passed the Senate, it is expected to die in the Democrat-controlled House...
...supporters had predicted, Schmidt carried the day. Delegates declared their preference by raising red voting cards, but no count was considered necessary because Schmidt had clearly received a majority of roughly 2 to 1. Yet it was an oddly hollow victory in a congress that failed to lift the party out of its deep-seated doldrums. Although Schmidt's coalition of Social Democrats and the Free Democratic Party was reelected with a handsome majority of 45 seats only 19 months ago, it has been in steady decline since then...
...more interesting is Steiner's belief that Hitler wielded language as an almost supernatural force. In one of his celebrated early essays, The Hollow Miracle (1959), Steiner argued that just as speech can create, it can destroy; that the language of Luther and Goethe "was not innocent of the horrors of Nazism," that Hitler found in it "the latent hysteria, the confusion, the quality of hypnotic trance." He now gives that view a theological turn, an adaptation of the opening statement in St. John: "In the beginning was the Word . . . and the Word...
...character who adds a distinctly Germanic touch to the story is the engineer Johann, whose red-rimmed eyes, hollow-cheeked beared and skewed teeth suggest a gnome straight out of Grimm's ghastly tales. Nicknamed "The Phantom," he crouches like a magicker among his intricate pumping machinery and shivers with foreboding before each explosion of an underwater bomb. But he is not the only hint of a tradition of fantasy. At one point we awake with the correspondent not knowing whether the terrifying crises of the past hours were real or only a dream. We share an unsettling feeling about...