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...learning the lesson--being told that we had unwittingly adopted the habits of authority and paternalism--only complicated our relations with Shaw students. We found ourselves caught in a maze of psychological dilemmas created simply by our being there, by our having to interact with the students. Eager to drop our roles as White Liberals, we found it difficult not to be liberal and impossible not to be White...
Enraged by a quarrel-with his fellow inmates, a Russian prisoner burst from his barracks room in the Nazi concen tration camp at Sachsenhausen, 30 miles northwest of Berlin. It was the evening of April 14, 1943. Picking his way carefully between the maze of trip wires, the prisoner reached the camp fence, then turned around and defiantly called to a nearby SS guard: "Don't be a coward. Shoot, shoot." When the prisoner made a grab for the fence, the guard fired one bullet. It instantly killed the elder son of Joseph Stalin...
...several other European countries are planning to follow suit. An excise-type levy on goods produced (the U.S., by contrast, usually taxes only the profits of companies that make the goods), the new tax figures to streamline the traditional European system, which heretofore has resulted in a maze of overlapping assessments. It thus will make it an easier bookkeeping matter to rebate the full tax paid by exporters and, at the same time, to exact the full tax on imported goods-precisely the practices L.B.J. was complaining about...
...buildings should be approached with a sense of humor," says Esherick. For fun, he split the massive factory in two with a zigzagging Italianate alley, designed a mysterious maze of stairways and pedestrian bridges. Martin, an unabashed eclectic, has refurbished an old Fifth Avenue double-decker bus for neighborhood excursions, is leasing a 13th century Moorish ceiling to one of the ladies' specialty shops. From the estate of William Randolph Hearst, he has purchased a 95-ft.-long oak-paneled gallery, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones and built by Queen Elizabeth I for her Ambassador...
...essence of life and the universe to Borges is an inexplicable maze, a labyrinth: "I have only my perplexities to offer you. I am nearing seventy, I have given the major part of my life to literature, and I can only offer you--doubts." He values the innumerable philosophies that he knows, not as solutions to the enigma--for it is not solvable--but as esthetically enjoyable constructs...