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...about his lead paragraph after the baseball team lost to Holy Cross 21-4 two years ago: "If it was a joke it would have been funny, but it wasn't a joke, but it was funny...
...Children of Paradise. A true epic, deeply compelling, visually unforgettable. Marcel Carne's masterpiece is set in eighteenth-century France, among the clowns, thieves, actors, pickpockets and peasants. It's impossible to do justice to this film in a mere paragraph, this story of three artists (an actor, a mime, and a murderer) who love the same woman, and must cope with their passion and jealousy in startlingly different ways. Carne's characters revel in theatrics; illusion and reality smash into each other, driving each man to the very brink of his art, to the terrifying edge of truth. Jean...
...White House aide who watched Blumenthal: "He was climbing the walls." Blumenthal was trying desperately to alter the decision and then, realizing it was irreversible, attempting to shore up his own position by making additions to Eizenstat's drafts. He finally persuaded Eizenstat to insert a new paragraph in the President's speech declaring that Strauss would become a member of the steering committee of the Economic Policy Group, of which Blumenthal is chairman. The reference was merely face-saving, for it was clear that Strauss would become a major force in the President's economic policies...
...apparent attempt to discredit DeVore through the controversial nature of that new field; DeVore's views are those of traditional biological anthropology. I guess Emmerich just dislikes the study of human evolution, or perhaps he is "out of his league" in discussing it. Anyway, in his final paragraph he changes DeVore's scientific theories to political ones. Only Emmerich, not DeVore, suggests that laws and civil rights might be based on man's evolutionary past, which though helpful--like history--in understanding how he does behave, does not determine how he should behave as a citizen. I sympathize with Emmerich...
...opening paragraph of "Protest Time Again" [March 6] telescopes events that took place almost a full year apart; the Stanford and Santa Cruz sit-ins concerning investments in South Africa occurred last spring, the Oregon and Portland State events in recent weeks. The nature of these events was also sharply different; the massive sit-ins last spring were remarkably peaceful and dominated by ideals of nonviolent civil disobedience, whereas the Oregon shows were run by an avowedly Communist organization, the Student Revolutionary Brigade, and involved small numbers of self-proclaimed revolutionaries...