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Still, last year, a handful of the racing boats packed up their trailers and left even before the results were announced. If you talk to the rowers fresh off the river, you probably will not be albe to identify with the slightly-inebriated stupor that comes from a long, hard race. You will instead be hypnotized by the flow of the boats sliding down the river, the harmony, the alluring but misleading ease displayed by the crews as they perform one of the most difficult physical acts...
...years Christian West is in drunken stupor while Moslem East is sober! Henry Ratliff...
...Shumchun, a short walk across a bridge from the British colony of Hong Kong. Visitors sensed immediately that they were in another country, a world apart from the bustle of capitalist Hong Kong. Men and women in baggy pants moved at quarter-speed in a changeless setting of rural stupor...
Sixteen-year-old Lizinka Tachezy, the title character, is the "femme fatale" par excellence. Drifting through the book in the innocent stupor of childishness, she neither acts nor reacts to the other characters. Her presence stimulates them, while she remains passive. When a shy, poetic classmate of hers feels that his love for Lizinka has been repulsed, he commits murder and then suicide. Later, Assistant Professor Simsa becomes attracted to his pupil, but finds that his impotence is directly proportional to his desire. In a brutal and surreal scene, he takes Lizinka to a prison and tries to rape...
Just as Oscar Wilde once remarked that the youth of America is its oldest tradition, much the same could be said of complaints about the failings of the U.S. political system. George Washington grumbled that "the stupor, or listlessness with which our public measures seem to be pervaded, is, to me, matter of deep regret." Through all the criticism, the mere fact that the system has survived more than two centuries of turbulent change is the strongest possible evidence of its solidity. While the American way of Government has repeatedly stood accused of inefficiency, the best defense is that...