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...creative to read as much as he does." "The juice of the past" isn't a bad description of the lifeblood of The Waste Land; but it was a past so disarranged--with the Buddha next to St. Augustine, and Ovid next to Wagner--that a reader felt thrust into a time machine of disorienting simultaneity. And the poem had an unsettling habit of saying, out of the blue, "Oed' und leer das Meer," or something even more peculiar. It ended, in fact, with a cascade of lines in different languages--English, Italian, Latin, French, Sanskrit. Still, readers felt...
...Alan M. Dershowitz pointed out that a story in which he denied representing Radovan Karadzic ran with the headline "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." The story also omitted Dershowitz's caveat that he had not spoken with Karadzic in a year. As a result, the "entire thrust of the story was wrong," complained Dershowitz...
...result was that the entire thrust of the story was wrong. Accuracy had been sacrificed for dramatic effect by an anonymous editor. It sure sounds like the real world of competitive journalism, where the grabby headline is more important than the boring details. Your headline writer has a job waiting for him or her at the New York Post. Your editor may be comfortable at the National Enquirer. ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ...
...major thrust of ACCRA--fundamental reform of campus disciplinary procedures, like Harvard's Administrative Board--will not likely be debated in Congress until next spring...
...mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should PRESIDENT CLINTON visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject to the cut and thrust of the hustings of Northern Ireland political campaigns." Paisley's party is well known for its gangs of bullyboys who play rough during elections. Could Robinson be threatening disruptions? "One thing we will not do is give prior warning of our intentions," he replied. The White House says there...