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...making them mean what they were supposed to mean when you dreamed them in the first place. Like many others from the class of '68, I am still working on the original stuff: bearing witness, struggling to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable; trying to find enough to laugh about so that the horror doesn't kill off the hope. I still believe, against all evidence, that things can change for the better. We're working...
...Business School was always looked on very disdainfully by the undergraduates," he says. "We would laugh at them because they always walked around with brief-cases...
South Africans have often been tempted to laugh off the far right as characters out of a comic opera. No longer. Rather than bowing grudgingly to the inevitable, many Afrikaners have grown more desperate. The militants are threatening to employ the same revolutionary tactics once practiced by black liberation groups: civil disobedience and guerrilla warfare. In the worst-case scenario, the result could be an all-out race conflict. "If they want war, let them start war," retorted a black caller to the Citizen, a conservative Johannesburg newspaper. "We are longing...
...WRONG TO LAUGH AT people's hurt feelings and sense of injustice? Even when those people are perpetually fussed over and paid millions a year? "What is all this about," wonders Mike Medavoy, chairman of TriStar Pictures. He means all the carping about Bill Clinton's fling with Hollywood. Medavoy is earnest and aggrieved, as are all the other wounded show-business Democrats. "What?" Medavoy asks rhetorically. "Bill Clinton shouldn't be talking to stars...
Interestingly, Brown's distrust of the lesbian label is echoed by Frazier, who notes that the word has "a dolorous quality attached to it. Perhaps it was the number of syllables or too many consonants. Gay pleased her. It had a frivolous, light-hearted quality and it made her laugh...