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Reith extended his Swiftian disdain for humanity to himself. The saddest and most redeeming entry in his ill-tempered chronicles is Reith's admission: "I have always known that I had a horrid character and disposition. And now I am querulous and embittered and small and shrunken and can't see even near the horizon. Believing nothing and without faith or hope, [I am] stifled and strangling and submerged by the pettiness of my own preoccupations...
This play begins with a black man raping a white woman. Strangely enough, it is less a brutal physical act than the saddest of requiems. The play ends with the figures of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on a rear stage scrim being spattered with gobs of blood. Thus the rape is, to some degree, an image of the anarchic violence...
...piaster note he wanted to keep as a souvenir. Sister Fidema of the Good Shepherd Convent in Saigon knelt over her suitcase and prayed. "I've been here four years," she said later. "These have been good years until this week. But this has been the saddest ever." The day before, 90 children from the convent had been taken out to Tan Son Nhut but had been unable to get on a plane before the rocket attack began. "Oh God, I hope they got home," said Sister Fidema...
...saddest aspects of this case is that the jurors responded in kind. Perhaps perplexed by the weights and cerebral evidence in Edelin's defense, this collection of white, mostly Catholic Bostonians accepted Flanagan's graphic if inaccurate portrait of the "victim," statements from the jurors have indicated. Not even the three days of jury selection that preceded this trial could eliminate anti-abortion sentiment from the panel. Another parochial sensibility was apparently active in their considerations. Even if Edelin is no killer, he is black. One juror quoted another as saying. "That nigger is guilty as sin." Apparently, some...
NOBEL LAUREATE Wassily W. Leontief's announcement last week that he would leave Harvard's Economics Department to take a post at New York University is the latest and possibly the saddest in a series of indications that the department has serious problems...