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With Moscow and Washington more likely these days to exchange kisses than atomic missiles, it may not seem the most opportune time to declare that nuclear annihilation is just around the corner. But followers of the Church % Universal and Triumphant, a motley New Age amalgam of Christianity and Eastern religion, are convinced that the end is near -- so near that they were heading by the thousands last week for a warren of bomb shelters deep in the hills of Montana...
Perhaps I have been in a different East Berlin from the one I have been reading about: triumphant, its citizens ready to join their brethren in a single, capitalist Germany. The East Berlin I visited last month was a gray city whose citizens seemed to be reeling, exhausted, sad, confused, angry. Hopeful, yes, of rebuilding a noncommunist socialist democracy, separate from the West but in some way affiliated. Wary of capitalism and worried about any prospect suggesting reunification...
...fascination with women of power resulted in The Warrior Queens, her last book, an analysis of women rulers who led their people into battle, from British Queen Boadicea in 60 A.D. to Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi and Prime Minister Thatcher, triumphant in the Falklands. Fraser identified history's typecasting of women leaders: the appendages, those who gain power by virtue of being wives, widows or daughters of a male ruler; the honorary male who rejects her femininity; and the female chieftain who is either "supernaturally chaste or preternaturally lustful." Fraser observes that when a woman holds...
...serves as the melody for a series of dazzling riffs on the 1970s and early '80s. It comes as a surprise to realize that these generations are the lost ones in Pynchon's fiction. V. (1963) and The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) anticipated but arrived just before the triumphant effulgence of television and youth culture in American life; Gravity's Rainbow was chiefly set during World War II. So Vineland amounts to Pynchon's first words on the way we have been living during the past two decades...
Although his football career has come to an end, Kotz has much to look forward to in the near future. On June 9, two days after graduation, Brian Kotz will marry his fiance, who is attending Harvard as well--a fitting cap to both a trying and triumphant college career...