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What does this mean in terms of immediate action? It translates very simply: this is the time to draw the line. I propose, therefore, the following:
∙ HUSTINGS: Derived from Old English for the place from which parliamentary candidates addressed the electorate, but originating in the Old Norse husthing, which translates literally as "house meeting."
How this ferment translates itself into election results is the yeastiest element of all. Bobby Kennedy, who presents himself as the patent holder of youthful disquiet, found that out last week in Oregon. By virtue of his expertise, diligence and money, and buoyed by a string of primary victories, Kennedy...
Donald Barthelme's game is best described as surrealist anthropology or perhaps social-science fiction. Literature today is overshadowed by audio-visual art forms that threaten to turn into total pinball-machine environments. But Barthelme, 37, continues to demonstrate that language can be a mixed-media production all by...
LEANING forward from his chair, Jorge Luis Borges focuses his nearly sightless eyes somewhere above the Sanders Theater ceiling. If the word charismatic can describe a man talking about the art of poetry, it describes Borges delivering the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "this craft of verse." Borges creates a...