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...breakdown of language. As he puts it, the "syntheses of understanding which made common speech possible no longer work." Today, Steiner notes, vast domains of meaning are ruled by nonverbal languages such as mathematics or symbolic logic; those who live beyond the veil of science and its mathematical languages inhabit only an "animate fiction...
...point in his speech, Marcos confessed: "I have been hounded by criticism that I am much too pro-American." Nonetheless, Marcos and his countrymen are far from tame clients. Nationalism is the most potent political force among the 32 million people who inhabit the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago, and the form it usually takes is anti-Americanism...
...bygone era, they faced relatively young, vigorous opponents of modern mien and moderate views. Both incumbents suffered from the erosion of the Byrd machine, which has lost some of its far-right adherents to a new Conservative Party. On the other hand, among the independent-minded white voters who inhabit swelling suburban developments in a crescent extending from Washington through Richmond to Norfolk, there is little loyalty to the old regime. In addition, tens of thousands of Negroes have been added to the electorate since passage of the 1965 voting Rights Act and abolition of the poll tax. Negro precincts...
...people who inhabit this environment are no less pre-catching, thanks to the gorgeous costumes by Jane Greenwood. There has been no skimping here. But the swishness has not been distributed indiscriminately: Miss Greenwood has carefully suited all her garments to the essential personalities of their wearers...
Born in Genoa, Montale was raised on the rugged impoverished Ligurian coast, the Waste Land that most of his poems inhabit: "Boulders . . . marshes . . . blistering suns and low air fogged with midges . . . waterspouts like giant trumpets of lead on the flogged horizons." At 21, he exchanged one desolation for another: the trenches of World War I. At 25, he witnessed the collapse of Italian culture under Mussolini. At 29, when he published his first volume of verse (Cuttlefish Bones), he was an apocalyptic pessimist who experienced "existence as entropy" and expressed the experience in language as acrid and compact as Dante...