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...Montreal Olympics will inevitably add its quota of such human errata to the history of the Games. But the main text will be provided by the track and field athletes performing in the $700 million concrete stadium that hovers over the Olympic Park like the fossil of some monstrous crustacean. And immediately the absence of Black Africa's runners was felt. In the first day of track heats, New Zealand's John Walker, the world's fastest miler, failed even to qualify for the 800-meter semifinals. This was only a tune...
...armchair analysis. A few excerpts illustrate the profound insight of Moynihan's thinking: "I would suggest that a liberal culture does indeed succeed in breeding aggression out of its privileged class...I do not believe that the young elites of this moment who will explain away any act, howsoever monstrous, of Arab terrorists or New World dictatorships do so out of admiration. I believe they do so out of fear. And with this fear has come a profound new phenomenon, the ultimate in role reversal, the final betrayal of self. It is called identification with the aggressor. It arises from...
...such a spirit of amity, the 5,000 delegates and alternates may find their chief excitement outside the Garden, in the Big Apple that is playing host to its first Democratic Convention since the monstrous marathon of 1924, when John W. Davis won on the 103rd ballot...
...unites everyone even as it divides them - cannot be reduced to ghoulish titillation without the possibility of serious consequences. Even in Shakespeare's most grotesque play, Titus Andronicus ("Enter a messenger with two heads and a hand"), the gruesome details are always treated as if they were unquestionably monstrous. But in City of the Dead the world is regarded as an autopsy table. Humanity is meat, whether dead or alive. To feel queasy in the presence of this book - and the tendency it embodies - is not necessarily prudish or cowardly...
...surface, the idea seemed, well, monstrous. But the deeper the New York Times looked into it, the more irresistible the venture became: the Times should go after the Loch Ness Monster...