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...Aeneas was and what he had, in legend, accomplished; neither his identity nor his military prowess could have been in doubt. Fitzgerald's rendition of Virgil's famous introduction may offend purists. It is not, strictly speaking, literal, but something more than that: a recapturing of implicit meanings in explicit terms...
These bleak emotional landscapes will look familiar to readers of Dubus' three earlier collections of short fiction. Yet there is something new here: a religious sense, largely implicit in previous stories, that is now explicitly Roman Catholic. The narrator of A Father's Story, the last and best piece in this volume, is a devout believer whose wife has left and divorced him, making it impossible for him to marry again with the church's blessing. And he will not do so without it: "For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular...
What occurred between the noontime rally and the "loss" of the banner is a classic example of the abuse of bureaucratic power and systematic harassment of revolutionaries. The fact that the banner was hand-painted on a delicate cloth and worth $500 is not as important as the implicit message delivered by the Harvard Administration to leftist activists...
...often seems to be demanding a strategy that runs no risk of war and involves no application of U.S. military power whatever, yet will accomplish goals that need a degree of force or intimidation to achieve. Military aid to friends in Central America, as well as the implicit threat of direct U.S. military intervention, give spine to American diplomatic and economic initiatives. By cutting even the modest aid requests that the Administration has made, Congress runs a risk of pushing American policy into the trap warned against by Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter. Said Brzezinski, of foreign...
...that very air is the oxygen of the epigram. W.H. Auden, who collected and concocted them, readily admitted that "aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre. Implicit is a conviction that [the writer] is wiser than his readers." François de La Rochefoucauld was a duke; elbowed out of prominence in Louis XIV's court, he retreated to an estate to polish his words until nobility could see its face in the surface: "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others"; "In jealousy there is more self-love than love"; "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice...