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The smoke of battle billows onstage, blanketing the assembled military might of two or three amateur swordsmen, and the first eight rows of the orchestra. In a hilariously interminable death scene, Jonathan Miller ricochets around and around the stage in the manner of a man alternately caught in a revolving...
"Who is that person?" he asked in his rhetorical rumble. "Who? Either the Secretary or Murphy. Anybody else?" But McClellan had already publicly absolved Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman: "I want to commend the Secretary, for as soon as he got the full facts on this he said, 'This won...
2. The poets' chief rhetorical opposites (and enemies), who make one wonder if discussion can really be a profitable exercise, delegate to represent them here two famous didactic lcturers. The first, Ambassador Valerian Zorin, explains how U.S. activity in the U.N. has (as is well known) hindered the efforts of...
This romantic novel preserves, as if in amber, all the forgotten joys of Victorian fiction. Here again are such stately nouns as provender and ablutions, adverbs like anew and perchance, adjectives like ruinated or commonsensical, once invaluable conjunctives like albeit. There are long majestic strings of rhetorical questions-"But why...
This line of argument is decked out with the usual trimmings: the swipes at RAND for its military bias, the rhetorical questions about who wants to survive in the "society that would emerge from the shelters" anyhow. and the final, strident, despairing plea for negotiations ("Both sides are driven to...