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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trudge like zombies through brief but nonetheless tedious interludes. They do not act like literary artifacts or wan verbal gestures toward ennui. They behave, instead, as if they had all the time and space imaginable to lead and ponder their complicated lives. Each of the eleven pieces in The Progress of Love seems to contain enough material for a fair-sized novel; Munro's art of compression emphasizes amplitudes rather than economies...
Sometimes The Progress of Love seems an ironic title. Munro describes the kinds of erosion that can occur when two people have rubbed against each other too long: "They were intimate. They had found out so much about each other that everything had got cancelled out by something else. That was why the sex between them could seem so shamefaced, merely and drearily lustful, like sex between siblings." A wife reaches for kind thoughts about her husband and almost succeeds: "I would think how humble he was, really, taking on such a ready-made role of husband, father, breadwinner...
...part, Peres declared that the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip "have a right to participate in the determination of their own future," and that Israelis "have no desire to dominate another people." Later he added, "If we had more time, we would have made more progress. We have reached much more understanding on a very complicated issue...
...steps were made and there is no chance for any kind of legal opposition." Said Walesa: "In order to have time to repaint the prisons, conditions must be created for people to join in working for the country. + Pluralism of social organizations is indispensable in order for reforms to progress...
Since last year, when the success of Lang's plan began to be publicized, nine more New York City classes, a total of 500 students, have been "adopted" by individuals who each have contributed $250,000 and agreed to keep a personal interest in the progress of "their" students. Now Lang is attempting to go national with his inspiration through "I Have a Dream," a New York City-based foundation he has established to help other communities set up similar programs. To date, he says, 20 cities in addition to Dallas, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami, are either organizing...