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...Mellow maintains, there is "something awesome about the manner in which Hawthorne fuses art and human sinfulness." Mellow even suggests, in an absurd simplification of Hawthorne's complex understanding of sin, that the sense of evil which pervades The Scarlet Letter resulted from Hawthorne's bitterness after failing to retain his appointment in the Salem Custom House. Mellow's analysis of The Blithedale Romance is similarly superficial, and makes the mistake of crediting Hawthorne with remarks that are made by his narrator. At the end of his discussion of Hawthorne's novels, Mellow concludes, somewhat simplistically, that "there...
...presidency takes its toll of every man who seizes it. Jimmy Carter, who sought the office with such determination and is now fighting so furiously to retain it, has been buffeted both by circumstances beyond his control and mistakes of his own making. His once thick shock of light brown hair is gray and strawlike in the unremitting glare of television lights. His soft skin mottles when he tires. The crises, the setbacks, the crushing burdens of the office have aged him a decade in the past four years, but they have not exhausted him nor burned...
...Mount Auburn Cemetery board of trustees voted this week to follow the recommendation of historical groups to retain the remaining part of a cast iron fence dating back...
...faced with a bitter, invective-filled Senate race -one of the nastiest political contests of the year. But in two other states, candidates for the House are mostly staying away from personalities: in North Carolina's Piedmont region, an old-school Southern gentleman is fighting genteelly to retain his seat, while in central Indiana, a moderate-conservative Democrat and a conservative Republican are debating issues and ideology...
...mesothelioma, a cancer usually regarded as incurable. Since then, he added, a regimen of treatment, including oil baths, vitamins and "positive thinking," had "extraordinarily" improved his condition. Said McQueen: "The reason I denied that I had cancer was to save my family and friends from personal hurt and to retain my sense of dignity as, for sure, I thought I was going...