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...covering the event for Harper's. "Mailer," began the Tribune in the third-person style of the author's The Armies of the Night, "came to Miami Beach with a great sense of Dread. He saw John Lindsay right away and that gave him a sharper sense of guilt because his article had elected Lindsay mayor in 1965, and Lindsay had turned out to be an adequate square. He had no existential dimension. By then it was time to go to Convention Hall. So Mailer slipped his .38 caliber under his vest and went down town...
...historical paradoxes or ironies found suitable or useful for a given occasion, and reject those lacking such utility. In this respect, therefore, the Black Experience is, I daresay, little more than an offshoot of the Human Experience--no better and no worse. Perhaps I can put this point in sharper relief by reference to other features of the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere that seldom appear in the black nationalist view of this horrofying historical event. To those who take the historiography of the slave trade seriously, it is commonplace that leading and entrepreneurial groups in Negro African societies...
...jumping into the air and dancing on the podium to Strauss's three-quarter rhythms. And while he captured the elegiac bittersweetness that is at the very heart of the autumnal work, he freed it of the sentimental encrustations that Strauss never intended; as a result it was sharper, livelier, nobler...
...something was missing or misplaced. It was as if the excitement had become confused with the music, so that the detachment by Mozart was absent. Rather than feeling invited to view a large movement from above, the listener was immersed in the music, running after phrase upon phrase. Perhaps sharper contrasts of dynamics or articulation would have made the Mozart as enjoyable as the Schubert...
Harvard is in top form for the match today, and Nayar's game is sharper than it has ever been. In the semifinals of the Canadian National Singles championship at Montreal last weekend. Nayar defeated Sam Howe--who is currently ranked number one in men's singles in the United States...