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...also be that the world has never really shaken its revolutionary cast of mind since that final decade of the 18th century, when the French Reign of Terror wed murder to freedom. All the revolutions since have sealed the knot, if only theoretically, and somewhere in the modern mind may lie the automatic connection of assassination with something good and hopeful. That would be especially true of places where corrupt administrations are unseated at gunpoint. The assassin states in turn may depend on that connection, trusting that the elimination of ex-employees of defunct governments will be held akin...
...good or bad, that he did. On the other hand, one aspect of determinism was that it gave humans the illusion that they had free will." Farmer does not resolve such dilemmas. He is too busy trying to get "all loose ends tied together into a sword-resisting Gordian knot...
George Bush, who came closer than anyone else to catching Reagan, retreated quickly after his campaign to his summer home in Maine. There he revved up his 270-h.p. speedboat and raced over the waves at 40-knot speeds, as if fleeing the memory of his defeat. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Douglas Brew, Bush admitted: "I'm still a little grumpy. I just don't want to talk about it yet. It's too soon. I'm sorting out what the hell I'll do with my life...
After his campaign ended, Crane went on a vacation with his wife. Says he: "I had totally relaxed and decompressed, with one exception, and that was when I saw these fellows still out campaigning. You know, I would suddenly get a knot in my stomach. I would say, 'Good grief, surely I have got to be packing because we're going to be off and running at 6 a.m.' Suddenly I realized how dreadful it had been. I mean, I hadn't relaxed in two years. The times I thought I was relaxing, I wasn...
Caroline is a mathematician who specializes in topology and knot theory. Husband Ivan is an executive at a New York City museum. He relishes detachment, irony and ambiguity; she favors directness, clarity and definite answers. But Ivan is more demanding than Caroline: "She could forgive a good deal of grossness so long as there was not emotional dishonesty, but he required aesthetic purity and was harsh about lapses in taste. He said that if something was shoddily executed it had unquestionably been shoddily conceived and insufficiently felt. This rigor in him, especially when directed at a well-meaning movie, gave...