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Each of Calvino's parables comes from a single mold, and so do each of Marco Polo's cities. As the catalogue progresses, anachronisms begin to creep into the explorer's narrative, and his empire begins to expand outward in time as well as space. Kublai Kahn discovers this...
Those are things we can do at home, things entirely within our own control. As we look outward, can we form a coherent realistic view of that deeply complicated, enormously varied world out there? Equally difficult, can we arrive at a world view without casting it in concrete-can we accept that we will have to change it, can we learn to keep it up to date...
...Australian pro game that Rosenstein noted in the course of his reporting was a deep loyalty to the strong Sydney-brewed beers that some Australian pros bring with them when they play in the U.S. Interviewing Newcombe at a tournament in Tucson, Ariz., Rosenstein observed that despite an outward display of confidence, "he was taking Connors very seriously." The clue: an uncharacteristic glass of milk instead of beer with Newcombe's roast beef sandwich...
...court had turned down similar claims by California, Texas and Louisiana, based on "tradition" rather than royal charter. The Federal Government's jurisdiction over foreign affairs, foreign commerce and national defense, said the court, gave it title and rights to minerals from the coastline outward to sea. In 1953 Congress returned to the states their rights out to the three-mile limit, but no farther. In U.S. v. Maine, the court last week said that the states are not entitled to an inch more than Congress gave them. Thus it cleared the way for the Interior Department to start...
...could not have guessed, from the outward appearances, that the man sitting next to me would exert more of an influence on my mind than would any of my professors at Harvard, Wearing a rumpled suit and an ancient straw hot, he looked the a typical racetrack bum. But when I caught a glimpse of the Reading Form he was studying so intensely, I got a different impression...