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...Radcliffe like? Sorry, we didn't drag water in gourds from a well in the Square; but Harvard Square in the early '40s had no Holyoke Center, no sidewalk cafes, no cappuccino, no chic, no beggars and only one subway entrance. Farther off, Memorial Hall (with tower) rose in splendor above wide lawns (now gone, where traffic zooms through the underpass...
They said it was a life of glamour, but it was really a life of splendor. I want to say, Listen, kid, buck up, don't be blue -- the thing about this woman and her life is that she was a patriot, who all by herself one terrible weekend lifted and braced the heart of a nation...
...team "thinking liberal" reflects a dangerous world view. It the idea that thinking, the splendor of cold-edged rationality, is all that matters in politics and in life. This is certainly not the case. The most profound questions lie beyond rationality. They will never be resolved, even by the deep thoughts jack Handy has to offer...
Tales, yarns, biographies, anecdotes, fables, government propaganda, gossip, myths, parables: stories stories. If Rafik Schami hoped to set the critics cooing over the thickly-woven narrative splendor of his first novel, Damascus Nights, he went the right way about writing it. He tells the story of a story-teller who has to have a series of stories told him by save him from a fairytale curse of dumbness which prevents him from telling stories. Do you see a theme forming" The essence of, say, a thousand night and a night of story-telling have been compressed into a single volume...
Some of the more stunning selections include incredible feats of human contortion, private body parts in pastel-iced splendor, and animal acts like you never saw on David Letterman...