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...fields of religious study, including the Bible and the history of Christianity, the position of one major modern theologian or the entire body of one major writer's work, and one classic of criticism-plus two foreign languages, usually German and French. The most harrowing obstacle is an oral examination during which the candidate must defend a paper explaining his critical principles before a panel of twelve professors from both the divinity and English faculties...
Borges speaks of "the advantage of briefness." He sees no need to bore himself with writing an entire book "to develop an idea whose oral demonstration fits into a few minutes." His fictions seldom exceed 10 pages. He calls them "footnotes" to hypothetical books, since he believes in "the certitude that everything has been written." Rediscovery and rearrangement, not "originality," are his objects. In the second Norton lecture Borges assured his audience that the world will never suffer a shortage of metaphors, even though they can all be classified in some ancient, fundamental pattern. As with a kaleidoscope, a limited...
...toes! Count 'em! Three toes the guy's got missing!", we see a man on his knees holding up three fingers and peering at a foot that juts into the photograph. Or when the businessman who happens to have his foot stuck in the sidewalk says to himself, in Oral Roberts style, "Take up thy foot and WALK!", we see a "Walk" traffic signal against a skyscraper background. All of which is more clever than profound, but fun nonetheless...
...other authorities to make the film, and in the end the controversy may be settled on the narrow grounds of just what was agreed to. The state contends that Wiseman had promised not to photograph incompetent inmates and to give the state final review. Unfortunately the agreement was largely oral, and is wide open to dispute. But it may be easier to settle that than to reconcile the thornier question of how much privacy an insane convict is entitled to in the face of the public's right to be informed about what amounts to a state scandal...
...revolutionaries. "The Frenchman wants to join us," Che wrote in his diary March 21. "I asked him to go organize a network of support in France, where he would return after passing through Havana. He wants to marry his girl and have a son." Then on March 25: "Long oral report on the situation to the Frenchman. We decided to call the movement the National Liberation Front of Bolivia...