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Walser's apocalyptic vision stole a march on the many literary ones that were to follow in this century. So did he also help invent what later became a modernist stereotype: the passive, clerkly man who must find ways of passing time while waiting for the end. In The Job Application, Walser portrays a degree of diffidence that borders on catatonia: "I know that your good firm is large, proud, old, and rich, thus I may yield to the pleasing supposition that a nice, easy, pretty little place would be available, into which, as into a kind of warm...
More receptive than whom? Than those who follow public affairs more closely? Decidedly. The Reagan Administration, more than any before it, aims its message to the big television audiences and wastes little time on those who want to follow the fine print. Reagan obviously didn't invent the homely example: Remember how Roosevelt shrewdly argued for Lend-Lease to Britain, justifying it as lending a hose to a neighbor to put out a fire? Nor did Reagan invent the bite-size explanation of policy. Gergen, from his speechwriting days for Richard Nixon, remembers Nixon's insistence that press...
...measure, herpes is an extraordinary bug. "It is the ultimate parasite," declares University of Michigan Microbiologist Charles Shipman. Says Washington, D.C., Urologist Peter Gross: "If you were doing a science-fiction movie, you couldn't invent something better than herpes." What makes it unique is that unlike influenza and other viruses, it survives in the human body. long after an attack has subsided. Once herpes has found its way into your system, says Dr. Harold Kessler, a Chicago specialist in infectious disease, "it's your virus for life...
...sort of sitting on their hands, you know. They've been pushing forward and developing new systems and letting the technology lead them. Now we have these weapons, now it's up to the decision-makers to figure out the reason for their use....We have to now really invent. I would submit, a doctrine to explain, to rationalize, the need for the numbers of weapons that we have. And it's true I think on the Soviet side as well...
Death has no sting. It is the custom for an Enu to go out of sight to die-conveniently underground. From sheer boredom the inhabitants invent their wars, like board games. They do not even care if they win. Winning can be a problem. "Win a war and you have to make the enemy do your will," the Enu Defense Minister complains. "What will? We have no will. We even lack a will to live. We no longer need...