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...common blood unites the four forces. They are convinced that at the moment of the Big Bang, the violent birth of the universe, only a single, all-powerful force existed, and that not until a fraction of a second afterward did this force split into four. Like knights in pursuit of a visionary grail, scientists for decades have sought what they call--with a bit of tongue in cheek--a Theory of Everything (TOE), a single mathematical model that would describe the fundamental unity of the forces. So far, however, they have met with only some partial successes and many...
...adolescent girl to the stormy jut of Farragut's jaw. But the main impression his works leave, when seen together, is not so much of a rigid technique turning out predictable results (which one learns to expect from official sculptors) as of an extreme responsiveness and delicacy, an adoring pursuit of the nuance, which coexists with his fondness for declamation. He had no embarrassment, of course, in quoting his quattrocento idols: that was the natural use of a heritage. He took from Pisanello, Laurana, Cellini and Desiderio da Settignano; the pose of Farragut is Donatello's St. George without...
...others are horrified by, or are deaf to, or fear, or pretend not to recognize the word. The more that is sought is a statement of innocence; one believes in his heart that enlightenment will be cheering, though experience proves that more often it is punishing. Still the optimistic pursuit continues, the pursuer buoyed every morning by that barrage of knocking on the study door, the news that the news is still coming strong, and that the bonfires are still being lighted around the world, signaling that everyone is still present, still cocking their senses for the missing more...
That is a large part of why the Administration has paid only lip service to the diplomatic option to date. But there are even greater disadvantages to the alternatives now available: pursuit of a military victory; abrupt abandonment of the contras, toward which Congress now seems inclined; and an open-ended civil war, which might wear down American will before it wears down the junta in Managua...
...Russian-American Narcissus." Late novels such as Ada and Look at the Harlequins! are seen as works of a "garden-variety egotist." Both books have their share of self-indulgence and preening; neither approaches the level of masterpieces like Lolita and Pale Fire, the last word on the mad pursuit of biographical reality. But viewed against the body of Nabokov's fiction, the narcissist label seems inadequate, a bit trendy and more than a little disingenuous. Field made his name studying the work and the man. Better than most outsiders, he knows the sources of Nabokov's genius, his gifts...