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...kernel of Sadow's devotion to Harvard football is his philosophy that one must live the fleeting, evanescent years of youth to their fullest. He delights in quoting the Robert Burns sonnet: "O man! While in thy early years how prodigal of time, mispending all thy precious hours, thy glorious youthful prime...
...responded Whacker. "Speaking of small potatoes, Davidowitz came up with a batch of french fries yesterday that you could build a log cabin with if you happen to overcook them. Popcorn that's smart enough to pop itself, and big enough so that you only have to order one kernel in a movie theater; cars made out of asparagus that eat tollbooths; marijuana that smokes itself and tells jokes; Government professors who only give A's and who have four legs of differing lengths; entire city councils without tongues; baseball players with bats instead of arms; bats with baseball players...
...reasons we pay homage to our heroes is to seek for some kernel of strength and wisdom. We ask what marriage of chance, circumstances and events electrified their movements or guided their noble deeds? Martin King, Jr.--like most Black people born before 1964--just 13 years ago--spent his early life being seared and seared by signs. His daily life was greeted or haunted by signs which read: "No Colored Allowed," "White Only," "Colored Service in the Rear," "White Ladies," "Men," "Women," and "Negroes...
...Hundred Years, a kernel of reality lies in the Patriarch's story. Garcia Marquez says that he learned everything he could about actual dictators, then forgot it all in order to write the novel. The Patriarch ages, contemptibly deaf and senile, gradually cut off from authority by bureaucrats who preserve him as a useful relic. He caricatures Franco propped up by his bodyguards in motorcades and at podiums, or the pathetic fake photograph of Mao swimming in the Yangtze River. His solitariness is the loneliness of power taken to its extreme and most human degree...
Like Immanuel Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision, Temple unleashes a torrent of arcane information. The reader must keep his bearings in a swirl of genuine astronomical mysteries, an thropological dates and the tricky cross currents of comparative mythology. The kernel of his thesis lies with the Dogon, an African tribe living in Mali. After studying their legends in the works of French anthropologists, Temple became convinced that the Dogon had precise knowledge of the star Sirius thousands of years before telescope technology revealed such information to astronomers...