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Ronald Hayman's biography is excruciating to read. Though the survival of Kafka's work, at lest, is consoling, all the high-school tragedy course rot about our uniquely human capacity to suffer makes it no easier to witness his writhing. Grab another beer and shake your heads. Poor Kafka. Why he clung so desperately to his father, why he endlessly romaticized him and even incorporated a piece of his shopkeeper, artist-as-vermin mentality--these are questions that Hayman knows are unanswerable. How 'bout that Gresor Samsa--transformed into a dung beetle so he kills himself with sorrow watching...
INTERPRETATIONS COME quickly and thickly in the wake of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union message. Together, we can embark on a new beginning. The Union must stop growing, lest it begin to rot. Return responsibility to the grass roots and in the process root out the weeds. Invoking leaders as varied as Churchill, Lincoln, FDR and JFK, the president struck many poses. Four spring immediately to mind...
Marx had foreseen a chain reaction of spontaneous uprisings by the working classes against the powers that be in their own countries. Yet Russia's Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 was primarily the denouement of a tumultuous interaction of events-World War I, the dry rot of the Romanov dynasty, mutinies against the Tsar's commanders and German machinations to encourage Russia's withdrawal from the war-none of which had anything to do with the class struggle. The working class in Russia, to the extent that it existed, ended up a bystander rather than...
After his victory, Healey appealed for party unity and vowed to develop policies that "will command majority support of the British people." What was important, he told TIME, was that "we have stopped the rot of the attempted takeover of our party by the Trots, Stalinists and loonies who have really nothing in common with Tony Benn-whom I readily agree is sincere-in whose name they act." Said former Prime Minister James Callaghan: "Now we're in business again as a serious alternative to Mrs. Thatcher's awful Conservative government." Party Leader Michael Foot said the first...
Crisis? What crisis? Farmers in California have long declared that this state has had a case of "Brown rot." It is too bad it took the Medfly [Aug. 31] to show the rest of the country our problem...