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This should be obvious; we see examples such as the Kennedy family, which went from bootlegging to political eminence in just one generation. More broadly, we find that one of the surest ways to escape getting convicted of a crime is to achieve middle-class standing. Consider the opening paragraph of this New York Times article, quoted in Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison...
...five-paragraph message, North Yard Adviser Vicki Hays and East Yard Adviser Vic W. Henningsen wrote that "while there exists no College rule against making idiots out of yourselves, there is a regulation about disturbing the peace...
Given this nihilism, this self-loathing that seems the dark side of narcissism, why does Kafka remain, 100 years after his birth, one of the authentic voices of the age? The answer lies in this centenary volume, Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories. His tales, some no more than a paragraph long, have forced their way into the modern consciousness. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa turns into an insect; in A Hunger Artist, a professional faster starves himself to death "because I couldn't find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made...
Every tale, whether it was a novella or a paragraph, was given what Thomas Mann called a "conscientious, curiously explicit, objective, clear and correct style." Kafka's pathological concern for style was so extreme that only a few tales were published in his lifetime. But the meticulousness that made him a dangling, indecisive figure in life produced modern myths in a prose like shards of glass. It was meant to be lucid, and it was intended to cut. It has drawn blood for 50 years...
...Bretton Woods call as a red herring, the French were looking for at least a U.S. show of respect for their concern about the ill effects of unpredictable currency fluctuations. At the final session, Reagan showed his skill as a mediator by suggesting that debate over a paragraph dealing with protectionism be postponed while other issues were considered. Then, when the seven leaders came to the paragraph Mitterrand wanted on currency stability, Reagan proposed a deal: the French and the Americans would compromise their differences on both protectionism and interest rates and consider the two sections jointly. The package plan...