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...broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet. In the shadowy foreground of these shots loom India's temples and palaces, symbols of its several cultures and religions, of a history?a maddeningly complex reality???impenetrable to the passing stranger...
English majors pumping gas. Would-be engineers on assembly lines. Prospective social workers on welfare. For hundreds, perhaps even thousands of the class of '71, this disturbing dislocation may soon be reality???for a time anyway. The lagging pace of the recovery from last year's recession is only partly to blame. Just as the U.S. has begun to consider the possibility of slowing down
There was a certain ecclesiastical aptness to the occasion: the calendar feast day on which the council convened is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Yet many observers at the march saw a disparity between the symbolism and the reality??? and in that disparity a measure of how much the council has accomplished, how much still has to be done...
Nation's Spearhead. The philosophy behind the S.A.O. is a muddle of authoritarian, imperialist and populist ideas. S.A.O. propaganda is the sort often found in flights from reality???orotund, florid, declamatory, and so ecstatic as to approach hysteria. Communists delight in identifying themselves historically with Spartacus and his slave revolt; the S.A.O. officers see themselves as Roman legionnaires holding off the Red barbarians on the marches of empire and sending back semaphore messages warning Rome?or rather, Paris?to "beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams...
...building in Irving Place and 14th Street, Manhattan, one afternoon last week looked at one another suspiciously, each feeling that the rest had no business there. In the theatre of memory one sits alone. But the members of this audience tolerated one another because their theatre was a reality??? a hideous brown edifice, the Academy of Music, about to be torn down by the Consolidated...
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