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...around the mud-brick cook hut where feeble fires of roots, sticks and llama dung struggle in the thin air. Indians who make it through childhood live to an average age of 32-without taking a bath, without taking a pill, without sleeping on a real bed. Most are solemn and docile, apparently cowed by their environment, except when there is an excuse for a fiesta and they can gulp caña (a potent, sugar-based liquor). Then, a missionary says, "a young Indian will start dancing with a girl and they will wander off. After a week they...
Mansfield during the debate, Dirksen reminded his colleagues of its "solemn and unequivocal assurance" that "the treaty in no way limits the authority of the Commander in Chief to use nuclear weapons for the defense of the U.S. and its allies." In the letter, Kennedy also promised that the U.S. would seek to minimize the risks involved in the treaty by continuing underground tests, maintaining weapons research labs, expanding detection facilities and remaining ready to resume atmospheric testing on short notice. The Tower-Long proposal was tabled, 61 to 33, and the way was clear for ratification...
Scenes, character and incidents shrink from one another like people trapped in an elevator trying not to inhale. A large part of the book is amusing, fragmented, pointless reminiscence by the writer. Another part is solemn bosh about time and reality. One character is admired for having escaped into the past, apparently because he lives (he is not dead after all) in a troll-infested castle. Another runs a progressive school in which the past is ignored on the ground that if it had any value, it would not be past. People go around saying things like...
...Solemn Bows. Vexations' première proved it to be in many ways Satie's finest joke. After even a dozen hearings, the music became more a hex than a vex, its funereal tune permanently etched in everyone's ear. The august New York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed...
Cage was on his feet with his mesmerized colleagues to take his solemn bows when the historic moment arrived. The audience-including an actor who was the only one to sit through the whole concert, and a neo-Dadaist who honored the occasion by wearing a bell around his neck-jumped to its feet for a spirited round of applause. "Bravo!" shouted the inwardly immobile. "Encore!" shouted a desperate...