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...ghostly refrain), a soldier, who has been forced to eat nothing but peas for months in the interests of science. Who shaves his Captain's beard daily in return for disjointed grilling on philosophy and morals. Who kills a woman and may, or may not, get caught. Sentences, conversations repeat constantly, occasionally inaudible but more often reinforcing the plaintive refrain of "no communication." "Say something, Woyzeck," "Say something, Marie," come the incantations as apocryphal scenes--of singles bars, of children at play, of cynical audience reaction--glide past. Nothing really ruptures the silence...
...cover story states, "clothes are the fabric of history, the texture of time," one can only hope that history will not repeat itself...
...more games than any other team in the past 20 years. A rambling compendium of assorted stories and analyses spaced out over a mythical season, the book invites its reader on a guided tour of the game, with an eye towards shedding light on the subtleties and intricacies that repeat themselves over the course of all seasons. A tour of the national pastime through Boswell's eyes...
Modern nations as well as primitive tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years. Hitler meant to inject his vulgar sacred time into profane time, but the sacred can never intrude for more than an instant. Any longer, and the results are monstrous...
...criticized the substance of the Reagan aid cuts proposals many a time, and need not repeat those objections. But the President's five-minute sermon from the mount this weekend suggests an equally fundamental criticism: that on a topic as critical as federal education policy, he remains ignorant of the ramifications of his recommendations and uninterested in learning more: If the President's "working vacations" are only going to breed haphazard pronouncements on issues of grave importance, we'd just as soon see our Chief Executive eliminate the "work" from his vacations altogether...