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...ancestral motivation of war-resisting is religious pacifism. In 1899, Benjamin Franklin Trueblood, Quaker educator and prime mover of the American Peace Society, thought he saw within his own life's span an end to war. He exulted: "Its days are nearly numbered"-and died, 17 years later, of what his obituarists called heartbreak, as his fellow Americans headed into World War I and death in places like Belleau Wood. Trueblood was in the tradition of a thin but spiritually pure stream of philosophical pacifism that has run through Western society since the rise of Christianity, even though...
...prime mover, so to speak, of traffic congestion is the U.S.'s explosive increase in motor vehicles, from 8,000 in 1900 to 90 million now. More pertinently, the car population has risen by almost 50 million since World War II, growing an average 5.7% a year while people increased by only 1.7%. Millions of families have bought their first car, or their first second car, or their first third car. Traffic engineers have been caught flat-tired. Great fleets of new cars will continue to cascade onto U.S. highways, but eventually, a point of saturation comes-probably...
...COUNT THE WAYS, by Peter De Vries. Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet...
...COUNT THE WAYS, by Peter De Vries. Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet...
...masquerade. De Vries stands appalled at the equations of life, and cracks tragic jokes about it. The stuff of Let Me Count the Ways would be funny if De Vries' characters didn't bleed. Is it comedy or tragedy, for instance, when Stanley Waltz, the Polack piano mover in this slice of Midwestern life, ruptures himself trying to haul his piano-sized paramour into the bedroom? Is it really hilarious that Stanley spends night after night in his own yard watching his own wife undress, and must then justify this irrational behavior to the police? And when another...