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...that he, like most of his countrymen, had been too young to fight in World War II. But, he continued, "I bow to you in grief at the suffering inflicted on the Jewish people by the Germans... We live with our history; we cannot and do not intend to shun this grave legacy...
Dying is easy," said Actor Edmund Gwenn at the end of his life. "Comedy is difficult." Perhaps that is why so many writers shun the genre. But there is a more salient reason. As Woody Allen sadly observes, "When you do comedy, you are not sitting at the grownups' table...
...Berkeley economist's theoretical bent leads him to shun disputes such as those waged by liberal Keynesians and conservative monetarists. "I do not consider myself involved in economic policy in any way," he says. Nevertheless, his work does have some practical applications in the hands of other economists. According to Stanford Economist Kenneth Arrow, a 1972 Nobel winner who has worked closely with Debreu, equilibrium theory is used by private forecasters and government planners to predict such things as the impact of a tax change on various industries...
Such sentiments may help explain why so many Japanese seem to shun the hurly-burly of party politics. Ask a citizen of Japan about his political affiliation, and he is much more likely to say he is a conservative or a liberal, not a Liberal Democrat or a Socialist. If politics is the very heart of a country like the U.S., it is more like an artificial implant in Japan: perfectly capable of functioning, but not really the flesh and blood of the national character. No wonder the politicians must shout so much to be heard. ?By James Kelly...
MAYBE READING The Catalog of Cool on a seedy, red couch in--of all places--Kirkland House had something to do with it. The comfortable but undistinguished corduroys and wool sweater could have also had an effect, not to mention the music emanating from the stereo by musicians who shun narrow lapels pointy shoes, and sunglasses. Whatever the reasons, I just wasn't hip enough to "dig this gig," as the back cover of this compilation of "hundreds of items of enduring cool" urges...