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Some of Spacks' most interesting observations surround boredom in women's lives and fiction. In both the 18th and 19th centuries, women's lives were defined by predictable routine. Reading offered an escape, but the dangers implicit in that escape were well known: unless novels were written in accordance with an unyieldingly moral ideology they could engender in their readers unsalutory desires and vicissitudes of emotion. Yet women's actual existence--their good works, the various musical and artistic talents with which they embellished themselves, their letter-writing and social calls--offered little fodder for fiction, except in the hands...
...Implicit in Snowden's comments, and implicit in the team's attitude, is that Harvard is considerably better than its record indicates, and that it the team just stays its basic course and keeps working hard on the court, good things will happen. Of course, good things will happen. Of course, with only two games left, those good times must roll now, or be unrealized through the long and wistful summer...
...College asked Murray why he has not explicitly answered his critics--pointing out that such is the duty of any responsible scholar. In a wry bit of irony Murray responded to this lucid question with a boldly irrelevant answer. In short, Murray ducked explicit as well as implicit demands to address his critics, preferring instead to repeat the assertions contained in his book...
...only a moderately bad resolution -- to the terrible mess that the war has become. Yeltsin has no good options, militarily or politically. He could call off the assault, withdraw Russian troops from Chechnya and begin political negotiations looking toward some expanded autonomy for the rebellious region. That is the implicit recommendation of Western governments, including the U.S., which, after weeks of embarrassed silence, are beginning to urge Yeltsin to stop the bloodbath...
...reputation for liberalism. And Vatican watchers never tire of invoking this aphorism: "He who goes into the conclave the next Pope, comes out a Cardinal." Martini has done everything to discourage discussion of his chances of succession -- including voicing his desire to be buried in the Holy Land. Implicit in that is the fact that Popes are buried in Rome...