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...Poetry and Power, a collection of verse commemorating the deeds and the person of the late President. "A good deal of this grisly material," Muggeridge wrote, "had already been published before the Dallas tragedy, and to a jaundiced eye bears unmistakable signs of external direction. Certain episodes recur, narrated in almost identical words, in a manner which irresistibly suggests the existence of a cyclostyled* master-version. Anyone acquainted with the late President, or even with one or other of his intimates, knows perfectly well that the legendary image of him so assiduously propagated bears little or no relation...
David builds fantasies for himself, notices a few months later that he had forgotten them, and finds they recur in a moment of fear. Observant as any bright child, he nevertheless partially misunderstands what he sees--or understands it only to the extent that he can. Though the book ends with David more or less at peace with the world, there are questions left unanswered in his mind...
...superlatives recur with the persistence of a busy signal. An outsize and aggressive utility, the company owns, operates and services 83% of the nation's 84 million telephones-nearly half of all the phones in the world. Its assets of $28 bil lion top those of General Motors, General Electric and U.S. Steel put together, and since 1945 it has raised enough new capital ($26 billion) to buy up the gold reserves of the U.S., Britain and several European countries. With 733,000 workers, the company employs a labor force greater than the population of Boston; its annual wage...
Some University officials consider the tension healthy and believe that it will eventually produce a better Library and Institute. But such controversies as that over who would conduct the oral taping project and the current problem of dormitory space adjacent to the Library are bound to recur...
Symbolic prison bars recur throughout the film, but never in a blatantly intrusive way like the self-conscious symbols of La Dolce Vita. Othello overhears Iago's baiting of Cassio through a barred casement, he looks in upon Desdemona through her leaded window, and finds out the greatness of his guilt behind a barred gate in the castle. His only escape from the cage of his passion is suicide, and one he has stabbed himself with a dagger, he leaves his prison, free to die in the bedroom beside his wife...