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When I meet a person on the street, I look for my future in that person's face. Having no certainly everything is possible and anything may be delivery. I make plans and surround myself with them, If I read in a book about God; I make my future as a num. I see a life in a cloistered garden, pulling tiny sharp scissors from my black belt cutting sunny flowers...
...hoped this combination of representatives from different Harvard offices would remove the stigma which might surround a program run by just one of the offices," Kleeman said last night...
...Hairy Ape, Hemingway's grunting heroes and Steinbeck's wretched Okies were the common components of tragedy. But even milestones can erode with the years and weather. Depression America is not Recession America; economic determinism is no longer in literary style. The ranch hands who surround George and Lennie are types rather than characters, and the stagecraft contains all the ungainly devices of yesteryear: the breathless entrances, the lamplit confessionals, the contrived pathos that redeems criminal actions...
...Purr. Pets are the surrogate children- and husbands and wives- of Western society, returning, for kibbles and kisses, companionship and devotion, or at least a cool tolerance accepted as love. Like pharaohs and czars and Caesars, Americans surround themselves with absurdly exalted animals. In a disjointed society and a disquieting world, these anthropomorphized adoptees can be counted on to wag and purr and warble, warming human hearts and hearths until they pass expensively on to await us in the Great Pet Sheraton Upstairs...
...Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés ("Cap") Pérez had a rare on-the-record interview with TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch at the presidential residence in Caracas. Insulated from the noisy center of the capital by the spacious, well-tended gardens that surround the sprawling, colonial-style mansion, Pérez was relaxed but assured in answering questions about his nation's foreign policy. Excerpts...