Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Which life will become his model, that of his father--a lord of the underworld--or of Cleveland--an insouciant motorcylist? The two sit on opposite ends of Bechstein's spirtual seesaw. His father, head of a numbers racket and prostitution ring, is willing to forget the past in order to enjoy the present, and the world be damned. Cleveland, who would like to get involved in the same underworld life, hangs out at the Cloud Factory--the name he assigns to one of Pittsburgh's omnipresent smokestacks--his thoughts often floating far above...
...proposal advocated a vote "in response to the worsening situation in South Africa, and in order to clarify the current position of this Board for the Corporation, the joint committee, and for the Harvard community as a whole," it reads in part...
...three overseers who were elected on a pro-divestment slate--two in the last election--say they have fought for a vote clarifying the Board's position in order to bring added pressure for a change in the University's investment policy...
Icastic imagery can be found in the models of the crystal ("the self-organizing system") and the flame ("order out of noise"), which Calvino steals from a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky on the philosophy of science. Under the emblem of the crystal, language is a privileged place where a geometric pattern of meaning may grow despite surrounding disorder. Calvino names Wallace Stevens as a poet of the crystal. Under the emblem of the flame, on the other hand, language unifies disorder by consuming it. William S. Burroughs might be a partisan of the flame...
...strange twist, the Baltimore Orioles are watching a Little League game in order to learn how baseball is played...