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...Even though I disagreed with Allende's idea of the perfect society, I respected him for the courage to implement it. I truly mourn the loss of anyone who, like him, played the game squarely and then, when he was the victor, was overthrown by men who have no rules...
...found himself increasingly isolated and plagued by failing health. Two years ago he relinquished his post as party First Secretary, naming his longtime protégé Erich Honecker as his successor. Ulbricht retained the largely ceremonial office of Chief of State. Few Germans, East or West, will mourn his passing. Yet few can deny that Ulbricht alone was the architect of modern East Germany, whose separate existence the West Germans have finally accepted and 89 nations now recognize...
These are the Little Girls Blue that Judith Rascoe has chosen to mourn and celebrate. How do they get that way? A chronic case of rootlessness helps. Rascoe heroines begin life in bad boarding schools ("A Line of Order"), grow up to borrow haunted apartments from the friends of friends ("Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows"), and climax their fate rolling down the road in a camper ("Short Rounds with the Champ...
...parking lots for kids. It's living death, all right, except for the diners. If, as is possible, everyone in Cherry Hill flushed their toilets at once, and it sank into the Delaware (the escalating sewage routes have not been clearly tracked down), few people without family ties would mourn the loss of the town...
...argued in The Crimson, for example, that the essential lesson of Vietnam is the usefulness of properly applied revolutionary violence. "Now that armed struggle seems to be drawing to a close," it says, "the Vietnamese do not survey the damage in their half-destroyed country with unease. They surely mourn their dead and tend to their wounded, but all along they knew the high cost of a revolution and were willing to pay the price...