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...Dear Bubbela" letters. Finally he wrote more formally, pointing out that she still had a contract. "I told her to go back," says Peter. "I said it would be good therapy." Reluctantly, Beverly complied. Muffy was making progress anyway, learning to lip-read and talk. Bucky, however, was a hopeless case. When he was six, Beverly made the excruciating decision to put him in the same institution in Massachusetts where Peter's retarded daughter was already lodged. On the same day, she sang all three heroines in Puccini's trio of one-act operas, Il Trittico, at the City Opera...
...flutter inside him at their meeting with the stew. Goo--ood!" It is explicit that Ivan is locked into a fate from which he cannot return home. "No one ever left the camps alive." His day evokes more a feeling of melancholy than horror because the situation is so hopeless...
...American embassy in Poland and having it validated by East Germany. But the biggest blow came to us when Elizabeth and I visited the office of Kaul, famous East attorney, to ask him to take our difficult legal case. His representative refused to help us, saying our prospects were hopeless...
...chain of American Imperialism to a political statement that the CFIA ought to be destroyed. That second claim, the call to act upon analytical judgement, ran counter to the academic grain. Dick insinuated that intellectuals do not have to be carried by the precision of their documentation to a hopeless cynicism, in which there is only the celebration of work, normally a means, as an end in itself. Similarly he questioned the valuation of intelligence divorced from a simultaneous valuation of the ends which intelligence is to serve. Intellectuals could come down from their towers, declare their values, and undertake...
...Johnnies of America don't respond to their teachers and learn to read. And fortunately, where it would have been easy to pain his audience with his own deep pessimism, he doesn't play the bogeyman. At the same time that he is writing. "Look, the situation is hopeless: my manual instructs me to encourage creativity, but my kids would rather take the salamanders meant for our science show-and-tell and fry them on the classroom radiator," he is working us into believing that if we would give a damn, things might be different...