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...metaphor with fact. Somewhere in the Führer's murky idea of Europe's gene pool, the Volk await a new golden age. But first he must burn away the dross of Bolshevism and Jewry. The verbiage grows wild and the mind bloats. Wagener's unintended legacy is a lesson on how a haunted medieval mind could effectively debase reason in the name of reason. --By R.Z. Sheppard
...heart of Porter's teaching will be that lesson of New York City. "People underestimate their capacity for change," says Porter. "There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. No one is going to make a change that involves pain if they think they can avoid it. A President's job is to help people have a vision of their potential. A great disservice is done when we don't help them understand they have most of the responsibility for their lives...
...women, black and white. At precisely 9 a.m. Bishop Desmond Tutu arrived. "Good morning, Baba (Father), " said members of the group. "A little more enthusiasm, please, " the bishop replied with a smile, and the group obliged. Then he pulled up a chair and began the day's lesson. It was drawn from Acts 21: 27-39, the story of Paul being taken into protective custody by Roman soldiers to shelter him from a Jerusalem mob. Tutu smiled thinly. When the prayer meeting was over, the bishop leaned forward to tell his staff about the previous afternoon at Daveyton. He said...
Wednesday was a senior bar night as well, this time at Cambridge Common, up by the quad. Highlights of the evening: losing a $5 bet on whether two friends were going to hook up (lesson: always err on the side of scandalousness); and watching my drunken guy friends pee in the streets during the long walk back to Quincy. I can only imagine that this happens every night to Quadlings, and I can only say I feel their pain...
...first lesson is that television has replaced clocks and calendars as an index of significant events. Martin, the narrator, recalls the moment when his wife introduces the subject of divorce: "Alex had turned to me during one of those postcard breaks on MacNeil-Lehrer and said she thought we'd be better off if we just forgot the marriage." As the legal wrangling winds down, Martin flies off for no apparent reason to stay at the motel on Florida's Gulf Coast managed by his sister-in-law Dominica. Before long, the two of them are in bed together, with...