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...patriarch's autumn ends, he dies, we the crowd rejoice. Politically, socially, Marquez' ending might seem naive. The bureaucracy that will replace the general will be no better. But the book's politics, like its language or imagery, transcend such judgment. Like the Iliad or the Tain. Autumn is so epically true it is unjudgeable. The patriarch is so immense, so all-encompassing, that though mortal, he becomes a fact of nature. And how can an ocean, or a season, be condemned for the death it causes...
...ancient Ireland. These include the Fiannaigheacht, a series of stories about Fionn MacChumhall and his young, unmarried, Fenian warriors, 2000-year-old stories that were lost to the mainstream of Irish consciousness but survived and multiplied among the peasantry; and the Ulster cycle, another series whose central epic, the Tain, relates the deeds of the mighty hero, Cuchulain, and the fights between king Conchobor's Ulster and other regions of Ireland...
Under Khalid and Fahd, Saudi Arabia will certainly main tain its strong commitment to the Arab cause against Israel...
Junior cap tain Steve Kay, who last year was named the most valuable player in the ECAC, led the spikers in perhaps their finest performance of the year, as they cut the ball much more finely and made far better angle shots than they have previously this season. Once the spikers were able to adjust to Queensboro's extremely effective blocking, they had no further problems with the upset-minded New York squad...
...both. But he did produce one of the great sexual images of the 18th century with The Night mare (1781). The painting ought not to work. It is too literal, too obvious. Its spectral horse with Ping Pong ball eyes puffs and blows through a fold in the cur tain, and the goblin looks like an irri table Irish dwarf. It is, in fact, the kind of painting that seems merely an aggressive pantomime in a post-psychological culture like ours. Yet nearly 200 years after it was painted, one cannot help ad miring the symbolizing effort that went into...