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...inquiry lasts throughout the play, but the proceedings are punctuated by flashbacks and seemingly irrelevant commentary by unrelated characters such as an American sociologist, newspapermen, and visitors to a bar. This technique, the appearance of outside characters, usually succeeds in providing external perspectives on the tragedy, but the patchwork of a plot often slacks off as characters go off onto unnecessary tangents...
...world. It is a good idea to remember Thomas Merton's question: "How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth and Frank and Norman and Lombard had mingled with the rot of old Rome to form a patchwork of hybrid races, all of them notable for ferocity, hatred, stupidity, craftiness, lust and brutality-how did it happen that, from all this, there should come the Gregorian chant, monasteries and cathedrals, the poems of Prudentius, the commentaries and histories of Bede... St. Augustine's City...
...Republicans scrutinized the maps closely, they began yelling like devotees of primal-scream therapy. Burton had carved the state into a patchwork of jags and jigs, all designed to create as many Democratic districts as possible. The 27th District, traditionally a Republican stronghold, once hugged the coastline; now dubbed the "anteater's snout," it turns inland at Santa Monica and travels along a Democratic corridor just a few blocks wide into the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Burton also proved to be his brother's keeper: to preserve the seat of his sibling, Democratic Congressman John Burton...
...down on salt can easily do so now. As to the general public, the thought is that it can cut down simply by exercising a little common sense at the salt shaker. In fact it is very difficult to find one's way in the present patchwork of labeled and unlabeled products...
This fiscal year the Federal Government is handing out $11 billion in aid to some 7 million U.S. students through a patchwork of programs: Pell Grants and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) to the very poor, low-cost National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) and the self-help College Work-Study plan. The largest program is Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL), which provides $7.7 billion to 3.5 million students (52% more than last year's number), many from families earning much more than $30,000 a year. Under Reagan's proposed budget, GSLs would require a far stricter determination...