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Upon reaching the George Eliot entries, few readers will have cause to question the author's observation that "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle...
...Hall of Mirrors (1967), a surrealistic vision of a New Orleans rife with political paranoia. This second novel confirms the talent betrayed in A Hall of Mirrors and reveals added discipline. The book has its flaws, of course. It occasionally luxuriates in baroque bleakness for its own sake. For example, Converse's addled mother is gratuitously trotted on like a lab specimen. The characters' motives, seen through moments of fragmentary introspection, are not always adequate. Still, most of Dog Soldiers is as precise as the cross hairs on a rifle sight. With fearful accuracy it describes a journey...
...investment, out of love of art, because of avarice or noblesse oblige? All of these questions are raised by the exhibit and nowhere are they answered. The lavish and no doubt expensive catalogue merely reproduces in photographs the objects displayed in the Fogg's galleries. Why? For posterity's sake? Posterity would have been far better served if some record had been made of the attitudes and motives that prompted these women to collect works of art. We might learn much about how cultural values and standards are made if we knew more about how education, money and personality combine...
...easy enough to understand that there can be no absolute reason for the increase in utilization of the UHS and Bureau of Study Council, particularly in psychiatry and psychology. The pains, concerns and problems of Harvard-Radcliffe students are infinite and cannot be quantified for the sake of reason, as much as one would like to try. Still, as William Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, points out in the 1973-74 annual report of the Bureau, "The pain of the most distressed students, being atypical in intensity and varied in origin, may not be very informative about...
...Pisar believes that the Soviets must agree to announce plans for grain purchases in advance in order to avoid inflationary disruption of world markets. The agreement on the U.S. trade bill has opened opportunities for businesslike relations between the world's most awesome nuclear powers that for the sake of peace, cannot be allowed to go unexploited...