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...floor boards in the rhythmic open-palmed agony of the bowed women who must become the slaves and bedmates of the conquering Greeks. Pain frantically grips a little boy between his mother's legs before he is taken from her and thrown from the parapets of defeated Troy. The boy's body is returned on his dead father's shield, and as the corpse lies there, like a tiny crumpled animal, pain speaks again in the unpierced stillness that is more dreadful than weeping...
Alternating Phases. Parkinson's thesis is that the whole of civilized history can be reduced to the confrontation of the East and West, with "alternating phases of Oriental and Western ascendancy." The West set the pendulum in motion with the capture of Troy in about 1250 B.C., which launched the Greeks' thrust into Asia Minor. Since that time, the East has rebounded with two long periods of ascendancy-one following the Persian conquests under Darius (522 B.C.), the other from roughly A.D. 400 to 1000, when Buddhism was sweeping Asia and Europe was plunged in the Dark Ages...
Although Judge Troy's decision is being appealed to Superior Court, Barshak doubts it will be carried much further because "the facts in this instance are not ideal for a test case...
...first three people arrested during a sit-in demonstration in Boston, including a Gen Ed Ahf section man, were found guilty of trespassing yesterday. Judge Jerome Troy of the Dorchester Municipal Court imposed the maximum fine of $20 apiece...
...Judge Troy rejected Barshak's argument, however, ruling that the question of discrimination was irrelevant to the merits of the case...