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...afternoon, and San Francisco's evening rush hour has already begun. Thousands of cars are inching along the highways; cable cars, buses, BART trains and ferries are packed with people. Suddenly the earth begins to tremble and sway, accompanied by a roar that some people liken to the sound of a hundred freight trains. Huge cracks open in streets and sidewalks. Shaken loose by the violent vibrations, tons of glass and ornamental stonework tumble onto the streets, crushing pedestrians and automobiles. Many older buildings collapse completely. Chinatown's famed Grant Street becomes a death...
...liken Solzhenitsyn's voice to that of an Old Testament prophet. I liken it to that of a dangerous extremist and warmonger. His contention that the U.S. should still be fighting Communism in Indochina is blood chilling...
...liken this assassination of Nixon to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and other great men in our history. Yet an overwhelming majority of Americans have delighted in it. As an American, I am ashamed...
Schonberg dotes on his masters, sympathizing with their troubles, seeing them through difficult times, paternally chiding them for their faults. He cannot resist the music critic's temptation to liken them to composers, setting both grandmasters and musicians in parallel hierarchies. Capablanca--"pure, classic, elegant... yet capable of demonic force in his great moments... the complete technician" is the Mozart of chess, and Alekhine, "a nervous tiger who stalked his prey with involuntary physical twitchings and psychic lust" is Wagner. Fischer, Schonberg asserts, surpasses even Wagner in terms of "monomania...
...exacerbated and made possible the escalation of the Middle East conflict, the conflict would still be there even if they kept out completely. And in the Middle East itself, classic patterns of interpretation aren't adequate either. Arab leaders often think in terms of fighting imperialism and racism, and liken their cause to that of South African blacks and people emerging from colonial subjugation. Israeli leaders think the same way. "Zionism is one of the world's oldest anti-imperialist movements," Yosef Tekoah, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Countil on October...