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...talks about grades at Harvard even though, like Hornstine, we care about them immensely. Each Expository Writing paper brings fresh horror, as students prate for hours in the dining hall about their parsimonious preceptors and the unappreciated nuances of their argument. News of grade inflation traumatized campus because it threatened a dependable source of affirmation for 6,400 over-achievers who had never seen...
...that is gone now. The world has learned a bitter lesson—or perhaps it has not learned it, since so many continue to prate about the crimes of Israel, the innocence of Palestine, and the need to end the famous “cycle of violence.” This rhetoric is a relic of an earlier time, when the sufferings of the Palestinian people—their poverty, their existence as a subject people, their stifled aspirations of independence—were rightly laid at Israel’s door...
Like most outstanding golfers, the bread and butter of his game is putting and like many golfers he is willing to prate indefinitely on this science. "You have to practice putting but I think it's hard to learn," he says in his Paducah patois, "I just practice and experiment. In the Kentucky State Amateur one year I had only 23 putts for a round--that's 13 one-putt greens. Some days from 15 feet out you stand over it and you stand over it and you know you're going to make it. On a bad green...
Murky Impulse. For all of his close analyses of geopolitics, Revel offers a kind of sociobiological conclusion: people may prate of doing good for man kind but deep down they crave power. Others have an "unacknowledged desire to live under Stalinism, not in spite of what it is, but because of what it is." In other words, some need to rule, others to be ruled - a "murky impulse from which none of us is free...
...other works prate menacingly on the dying urbanism of the American cityscape. They are complex and geometric, Baroque in expression, and the image of the city is harsh and self-destructive, swept with the contrasts of blaring and bland colors-as in "The Mugging," with its incompletely sketched faces of an indifferent and ignoring populace...