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Other academics soon entered the fray. At the University of Bielefeld, in West Germany, Historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler had received The Collapse of the Weimar Republic to evaluate, as part of Abraham's rite of passage to tenure. Wehler disliked what he called the dogmatic framework of the book and would not recommend tenure. Turner, meanwhile, circularized colleagues, sending them several of Abraham's quotations, together with underlying source documents that seemed contradictory. For example, Abraham cited Banker Hjalmar Schacht as calling the Nazis "the positive force" and telling associates "we should contribute to them and their efforts." Actually, Schacht...
...those who died, there was no solitude. The traditional Hindu rite of cremation is one body, one pyre. But there were too many dead, and not enough firewood. The only solution was to place the dead, wrapped in cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, as many as five or six corpses together, on one pyre. As a result, huge fires burned all night long, sending smoke and flames arching up the sky as if death had become a permanent part of the countryside...
Science fantasy is an act of subversion disguised as a fairy tale. In primal imagery and orotund cadences it sets the young imagination on a children's crusade against malevolent power. It describes a vicarious rite of passage through bloodshed and anarchy to heroic manhood; it upends the prevailing social order to establish a new moral equilibrium. For the generation of budding revolutionaries in the 1960s, Frank Herbert's Dune was a magical mystery trilogy that, along with The Lord of the Rings and the Gormenghast books, galvanized the spirit like a Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival...
...break: employees who now work from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. will be able to leave their jobs an hour earlier. If that trade-off works in Peking, the idea could spread to other cities and to nongovernment organizations where the midday rest is also a tradition. However, the rite of xiuxi may have become too ingrained to be rooted out so easily. Says one Peking writer: "The directive won't change much. It's like operating on a finger to cure an ulcer...
...Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper about to cut a doe's throat in a darkening wood is a gravely haunting mixture of the archaic and the matter-of-fact. Venison, to be eaten, must be killed, but the thickening shadows seem to enfold a more sacrificial rite than the mere stocking of a larder. This, like all Stubbs' paintings, must also be seen as a manifesto of the supreme ideology of late 18th century England: the celebration and defense of property. If the wrong person killed that doe, he would be transported or hanged...