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...tell you, my friend, there is a surge - a surge. The people everywhere have had a quickening. You can feel it in the streets, and shops." A few exchanges later, the two men are enemies. What intervenes, of course, is Adolf Hitler. ("The man is like an electric shock," says an ever-more-admiring Shulse.) But Address Unknown is more than a portrait of a failed friendship or a tale of Nazism's rise. Without giving away too much, let me say that a death is avenged and a blow struck against a rising evil, both with great subtlety...
...these masked women stiff against a striped landscape as flat as the backdrop in a photographer's studio? Perhaps they are people in the new earth Malevich has seen, one colored by mystery, self-possession and a bucolic beauty. What emotion does the work convey? The innocent shock of another world of color...
...Last year we were still absorbing the shock. Now we are reflecting on what it means and who we will become,” said Chaplain of Harvard College Mark D.W. Edington...
...Sept. 11, Sana and her mother watched the little TV by the bed in numb horror. First the dissolving towers, then the furious retaliation: Muslim-owned shops in the U.S. being trashed and burned, Arab-looking cabbies dragged from their cars and beaten. "We were both in shock," recalls Sana, who telephoned her brother, a student in Ann Arbor, Mich., that first night to make sure...
...hand apart it hurt so bad. It was surreal," she says. "I saw all these men coming ... and I knew I had to get out of the way, but he still had my hand in his mouth." Finally, when he let go, she calmly and professionally--no doubt in shock--put up the tray table next to him. Then she ran for the fire extinguisher...