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Washington has pledged to tame the machine and to reform its "patronage army" of city workers. But the long-excluded Blacks of Chicago's slum-ridden South Side who showed up 15,000 strong at his victory party, didn't discuss the merit system...
...life becomes increasingly fictional in middle age. I find There's no longer a great difference between real life and fiction. But that's a feature of our age generally, don't you think Fiction seems tame compared with reality, and people's reality is so fantastic it seems like fiction...
...fled to the South Seas partly to escape his increasing need for her, but he ended his voyage by meeting her in Paris. This time she was the one who fled, back to Washington, pursued by an eloquently inarticulate letter. "I am not old enough to be a tame cat; you are too old to accept me in any other character ...," Adams wrote. "One may be innocent as the angels, yet as unhappy as the wicked; and I, who would lie down and die rather than give you a day's pain, am going to pain you the more...
...much atrophied. Primitive man stood in still wonder in the presence of the seamless order of the elements and took violent fissures of that order as omens of supernatural wrath. Today such disasters are rationalized as freakish accidents, not as shattering revelations of immutable forces that man may never tame...
...Harvard men's basketball team proved last night that its best offense is an aggressive defense, brandishing a rugged man-to-man and a solid zone to tame Columbia, 66-62, before 1150 at Briggs Athletic Center...