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...ponder New York City all day without associating it with Thomas Wolfe, and San Francisco for a month without thinking of Tony Bennett, but Chicago is the Hog Butcher and "player with railroads and nation's freight handler." Though the trains don't run, and though the hogs are gone...
...Beckett play may aspire to silence, yet its characters can't shut up. The women, reminiscent of Beckett's Dublin youth, chatter on about postnuclear sunlight (Happy Days) or adulterous affairs (Play)--what's Gaelic for yenta? The men ponder the efficacy of torture (Rough for Theatre II, What Where), the memory of a mother's last days (Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls). Their dialogue often sounds like bumper stickers for the clinically depressed: "Can there be misery loftier than mine?" asks Hamm in Endgame. But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic. As Beckett knew, all hope is comic...
...from political obscurity to attack Reagan's economic proposals and Carter's foreign policy and to attract an army of idealistic supporters. With a late start and without a billionaire's bank account, Anderson was still able to garner nearly 7% of the vote, provoking pols and pundits to ponder anew the viability of independent and third-party candidacies. Today Anderson, a visiting professor of law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, travels the lecture circuit as president of the World Federalist Association, an organization that promotes world peace. "We are now light years ahead of where we were...
...genetic blueprint has made believing in an Infinite Absolute part of our nature," writes Benson. Evolution has so equipped us, he believes, in order to offset our uniquely human ability to ponder our own mortality: "To counter this fundamental angst, humans are also wired...
...which has fostered our present selves, upon which our self-esteem has come, in part, to rely. Yet we are disenchanted by the limitations of the present in their finite realm. We cannot help but shrug our shoulders at the bottom line as the common denominator. We may ponder why there are so many songs about rainbows and what s on the other side, but we never really go that far in our search...