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...from precisely such uncomfortable facts that mouthings about moral schizophrenia shield their speakers. The phrase "tragic war in Vietnam," has become a near proverb among Liberals. But "tragic" has no definite meaning; it doesn't refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise and fall of statesmen, or anything like that. Insofar as it means anything at all, it means "sad." Accordingly, the phrase is given out in subdued undertones, as though a dead man with a brokenhearted widow were weeping in the next room. It is used as if in reference to an accident...
...continue eating the same regimen of frozen, canned and dehydrated foods that they had aboard Skylab. Though they were allowed to go home to their wives in the evenings, their children had to move away from home temporarily. The 18 days of semi-isolation were ordered by doctors to shield the astronauts from the effects of earthly germs; any chance infection could be confused with bodily changes caused by the prolonged weightlessness, and thus hinder the intensive effort to pinpoint the physical consequences of living in zero...
...conforming to the architecture of the Yard by putting the library almost completely underground. The Pusey Library will have three levels but will rise only nine feet above ground level. The library's roof will be covered with grass, shrubs and a walkway, and a grassy surrounding mound will shield it from view, so that it will look more foliated than the dusty open space between Houghton and Lamont that it will replace...
Yukio Mishima completed his tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, one November morning in 1970. Then he dressed himself in the somewhat Grau-starkian uniform of his private army, the Shield Society, and led a group of young right-wing followers to a military headquarters in western Tokyo. There, in a violent and extravagantly eccentric display of the artist engage, he broke into the commander's office, harangued some mocking soldiers from a balcony about the disgraces of fading Japanese imperial tradition, withdrew and committed harakiri. A companion ritually lopped off the head of Japan's most celebrated postwar...
...remind oneself of Picasso's energy, which stayed with him right to the end. That in itself is impressive: Don Juan at 91, creakily fornicating with his succession of blank canvases, struggling and failing, but then struggling again to trans form the too compliant image into a shield against death...