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...language available." And his own answer seems less than adequate. "There's no reason why a language devised by man should be inadequate to describe any of man's works. The difficulty was in admitting that the war had been made by men and was being continued ad infinitum by them." Fussell rejects Louis Simpson's theory that infantry soldiers so seldom render their experiences in language because "language seems to falsify physical life and to betray those who have experienced it absolutely--the dead." Fussell reduces the whole problem to this: it's not that war is indescribable...
...toting publisher. Loeb's well-known alliance with Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters, stemming from financing he received from the union's "Pension Fund", is reviewed in detail, as are his campaigns of villification against the University of New Hampshire, the Kennedy family, Muskie, McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, ad infinitum. Indeed this biography might serve as a handy compendium for anyone interested in a careful review of the Union Leader's three decades of slander...
...does not need is another saint on its calendar. I am convinced that Rome is fiddling while the world burns; the Vatican still clings tenaciously to its medieval "canonization" process, whatever that term means today. Relics, miracles wrought in the name of the person considered for sainthood, etc., ad infinitum, all seem embarrassingly anachronistic. When will the Vatican face up to vital issues threatening the Roman communion? Why does Pope Paul carefully avoid issues like celibacy for diocesan clergy and ordination of women to the priesthood...
...best composer to have his works played to death in the '70s: Scott Joplin (The Sting, The Red Back Book, piano rolls, E. Power Biggs' pedal-harpsichord arrangements, ad infinitum...
...inner-directed man" to bail us out--granted his qualification for the job? The "limbo" of merger might find part of its answer when we see all students on their own merits as human beings and not in "a glass darkly" as male-female, racially pinpointed, short, tall-ad infinitum. Our business is students and a nice business...