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...contain Communism in Central America, while Northern Democrats look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam. No center holds. "The party is floundering because it lacks a vision of where it is going," says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber. "Where there is no vision, the parties perish...
...curls to satisfy his mother, still mourning the death in infancy of her first child. Impersonating his dead sister was the last role anybody ever imposed upon Rilke. At the age of ten he entered a military academy near Vienna. "Seize your sword," he wrote in a schoolboy poem. "Perish for your fatherland...
...apparent on every front: some 3,400 factories in the four front-line provinces have been destroyed or extensively damaged; Iran's largest port, Khorramshahr, has been incapacitated; the disruption of irrigation and the flight of farmers in war zones have caused $ 1 billion worth of cattle to perish. Yet the regime seems scarcely interested in attending to such problems. For the fiscal year ending in March 1983, the Islamic Revolution Records, ostensibly a record-keeping body but believed to be a front for KGB-trained secret police, was budgeted to receive 60 times as much money...
...that journey was arduous and often tragic for Soviet exiles, particularly for those poets and writers who fled their country after the 1917 Revolution. A few, like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
...mine. Eventually they return to the summer house with the pasty-faced, foreign prospective buyers. Despite the sight of their terrified children, they pretend nothing has gone wrong and entertain the foreigners. But soon the thistles go to seed. Some of the family members try to escape, and soon perish, but some survive by huddling close to the ground...