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Ronald Hayman's biography is excruciating to read. Though the survival of Kafka's work, at lest, is consoling, all the high-school tragedy course rot about our uniquely human capacity to suffer makes it no easier to witness his writhing. Grab another beer and shake your heads. Poor Kafka. Why he clung so desperately to his father, why he endlessly romaticized him and even incorporated a piece of his shopkeeper, artist-as-vermin mentality--these are questions that Hayman knows are unanswerable. How 'bout that Gresor Samsa--transformed into a dung beetle so he kills himself with sorrow watching...
INTERPRETATIONS COME quickly and thickly in the wake of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union message. Together, we can embark on a new beginning. The Union must stop growing, lest it begin to rot. Return responsibility to the grass roots and in the process root out the weeds. Invoking leaders as varied as Churchill, Lincoln, FDR and JFK, the president struck many poses. Four spring immediately to mind...
...last week he said that new studies had shown registration could shave off as much as six weeks. Though officials denied that the Polish situation figured in Reagan's decision, White House advisers privately conceded that it would have been the wrong time to revoke draft registration, lest misleading signals be sent to Moscow and the allies...
Ruskin was the precocious child of doting parents, as Historian Joan Abse relates in this vigorous, compassionate biography, and his life through middle age was a struggle to free himself from their loving tyranny. "My mother had never let me play cricket lest it should quicken my pulse, step into a boat lest I should fall out the other side," he wrote wistfully. When he matriculated at Oxford, she followed him and took lodgings there, to oversee his physical and spiritual health. She was a fierce evangelical Protestant, and her husband, a prosperous and essentially self-educated wine importer...
Hampered initially by a maddening lack of reliable information as to exactly what was happening inside Poland, and worried lest too strident a reaction might yet give the Soviets an excuse for an outright takeover, Washington decided from the start that its responses would indeed be primarily words. Through the early days, Haig and other officials confined themselves to restrained expressions of "concern" and cautiously voiced hopes that the martial law crackdown would only be "a temporary retrogression, not a change in the overall historic trend toward reform" in Poland. As one top diplomat explained: "We want to tread...