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...line of Virgil's Aeneid occurs to me. It is from Aeneas' account of the fall of Troy: Jam proximus ardet Ucalegon ! (Close by, Ucalegon's house is already ablaze!) When I contemplate the festival of the oppressed and exploited of South Africa, I shudder at the complacency and mystifications of all the Kennans...
...into middle age, Gibson's bizarre experiences become more public. He conducts an all-night talk show on which his guests blurt out their secret lives. A college professor whose sexual advances were rebuffed by a tough ten-year-old singing star turns to frantic logic: "Helen of Troy was nine . . . Psyche was six. When you come right down to it, how old could Eve have been-a day, two days...
...perils of parenthood, four Detroit-area communities have added the risk of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Mainly at the insistence of local police, Troy, West Bloomfield Township, Madison Heights and Pontiac have all recently enacted similar ordinances that hold parents responsible for preventing the sins of their children...
...Matthews refers to is Rep. Hickey, against whom he is directing his campaign. Matthews' leaflets maintain "your present State Representative wanted to spend $178,000 of your money to build a private marina for Judge Troy at Tenean Beach in Dorchester...
...used to think that war was Henry Fonda shooting it out behind a water trough on a dusty Wyoming street. Or Achilles chasing Hector around Troy. So the only way that I have been able to understand the war in Vietnam is to pretend, each time a GI or a Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Vietnamese have been killed and probably 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest...