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...part romantic epic, is a remarkable feat of technique, and of soul. Gage deftly shifts among hundreds of characters, dozens of locales, and a welter of big-scale narratives-World War II, the Greek civil war, the exodus of Mourgana refugees in every direction-that in lesser hands would overwhelm the story of one woman's family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite. Painfully, he recalls the mother...
Humes warned that the mutually reinforcing escalation of the arms race is a regenerative feedback cycle: "the momentum of that oscillation can overwhelm you... the problem of putting the brakes on is a lot more difficult than initiating the thing...And as you build these monstrous weapons of destruction, with the idea that they are somehow making you more and more secure, you come closer to the day of your own destruction. Anxiety neurosis is full of paradoxes like that." Of particular concern, he said, are "trip-wire" first-strike systems now being planned and deployed, which he called "paranoid...
...moment is quintessential Mailer, combining swagger, a touch of menace, self-mockery and high good humor. Such charm in close quarters could overwhelm a roomful of enemies. How could anyone not wish this impish iconoclast happiness, prosperity, long life, enough success to make him happy and enough failure to keep him on his toes? But mellowness? Hold that for a while, spare him and the rest of the world such tedious peace. Says Mailer: "I've never been impressed by mellowing. Usually the people who have mellowed always have just a touch of sadness, because maybe they shouldn...
...with a pulse all its own, Ararat, like the Armenian landscape from which it is drawn, is a much drier work. The tremendous stream of poetry in The White Hotel, the sexually surreal "Don Giovanni" portion as well as the deafening violence of the Babi Yar testimony, collaborated to overwhelm the reader. This sensory overload created a flow or wave of feeling, which after it had receded, left the reader feeling a part of the world which he had just experienced--the world of Freud and the Holocaust...
...compact-car market. Despite this, Chrysler's survival continued to be a week-by-week proposition throughout 1981. The losses were lower, if still unspeakably high: "only" $475.6 million. lacocca and other executives periodically braced themselves for "drop-dead dates," deadlines when, the accountants calculated, accumulated expenses would overwhelm the amount of cash that was trickling in. lacocca found himself one Friday night in November 1981 with just $1 million left in the bank, a pittance for a company that was spending $5 million per working hour. Only by delaying payments to suppliers and strong-arming dealers into buying cars...