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...Labyrinth That Is L.BJ...
...people care about me." Sidey is TIME'S White House correspondent and writes a column on the presidency for LIFE. He has filed about 2,000,000 words on the career and character of L.B.J., and yet, he says, "It is impossible to find your way through the labyrinth of Johnson's mind...
...Memorandum, a popular play by Vaclav Havel, the main character gets an important memorandum in an impenetrable official language; in order to get permission to learn the language, he must first write a petition in it. One of the biggest hits of the Prague theater season, The Labyrinth by Ladislav Smoček, shows men imprisoned in a maze of park pathways and hedges, which represent bureaucracy. While an amused keeper watches with his vicious dog, they crawl piteously about, toss out the bones of their dead comrades and conduct absurd conversations...
...Borges, the universe is, as he said at a reading of his poetry in December, "an unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." Borges sees himself, the artist, not as a searcher for the exit to the labyrinth but as a man lost along with everyone else, who can perceive and can convey to his fellows flashes of clarity within the windings of the maze. The flashes of clarity within the windings of the maze. The essence of the lectures--especially the two most recent--is the expansion of such insights...
Maneuvering the bill toward Senate passage through an obstacle course of conservative opposition and a labyrinth of parliamentary rules was a Clausewitzian tactical feat executed by a most improbable general-Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. Long opposed to open-housing legislation, Dirksen lately reversed his field and joined up with the Republican-Democratic liberal coalition (TIME, March...