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Sure, we've been worrying about our academic performance, frowning TFs and that tool who did all the Ec 10 reading, but what we need is the heavy duty neuroses that only Woody can deliver. We want to worry about death, sex and even worrying for its own sake. We want to fear fear itself...
...advocating the fuzzier 'reconciliation.'" In case you haven't noticed, civil rights legislation hasn't ended racial hatred and inequality in our country. Reconciliation has to do with acknowledging wrong attitudes and actions and righting them; it has to do with healing, not legislation or formulas. For heaven's sake, give it a chance! MARILYN MARTIN Tucson, Ariz...
...characters for improper use of gerunds. Like Ballard, Delbanco has an ear for "pretty mots all in a row," and obviously takes care to produce affecting sentences. Unfortunately, his sometimes clever phrases usually detract from the overall quality of the work. Entire paragraphs are sometimes included just for the sake of one pun. Some sentences read like Delbanco took a thesaurus and looked up a longer synonym for any word under six letters...
...another, makes it his 24 hour mission in this tiny hamlet to bring people together in a pleasant way. As he says on his home video (one of the movie's oddly anachronistic touches): "I am a maker of matches, the human kind"--that's for clarity's sake--"where people get together, get married and live happily ever after." He then proceeds to reassure his viewers that this ambitious project of long-term matchmaking can be measured quantitatively with pie charts and line graphs...
...time as well as of the place, Golden's depiction of Gion during and after World War II is superb. He is even confident enough to have some fun--he includes a wonderful brief passage about Mameha's past encounters with various luminaries who had visited Japan. "She poured sake for the great German writer Thomas Mann, who afterward told her a long, dull story through an interpreter," Golden reports, as well as for Ernest Hemingway, "who got very drunk and said the beautiful red lips on her white face made him think of blood in the snow...