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...Indeed, in Cortázar’s hands, all the possible consolations to which his characters turn??“vodka and Kantian categories,” love or political action—inevitably become only “tranquilizers against any too sharp coagulation of reality.” All individual choices are colored with the pigments of despair; all action comes to seem only a futile bulwark against ultimate insanity, or suicide, or conformity. Reading the book Cortázar’s way traps one in a final loop between two random chapters...
...cafe-dwelling, revolutionary intellectual; rather, he was a Jewish public school kid from California who worried about looking like and fitting in with East Coast private school kids.In those days, the schools of thought that ushered in 60s radicalism and Marglin’s own left-ward turn??feminism, the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements, and the sexual revolution—were nascent as ideologies.Students at Harvard during the late 50s consistently said that political engagement on campus was virtually nonexistent, with students expressing more concern over the closing of the popular bar Cronin?...
...Think about it: if I see a woman on the street, nine times out of 10 she’s going to be straight,” Oyeniyi says, joking that sometimes she has to “turn?? straight women...
...outdone, the Los Angeles Times executed the most precious of unintended ironies, labeling the decision an “unconscionable U-turn?? while offering a detailed and dispassionate description of the abortifacient procedure, by which “a doctor partially extracts a fetus from the uterus into the birth canal, where he then collapses the skull by suctioning its contents...
...Purdue yesterday at the Murr Tennis Center.The defeat came in a match that featured so many heart-thumping rallies that by its conclusion, the fans felt as worn out as the players.The match started out auspiciously for Harvard but proceeded with such riveting swings of momentum that the final turn??in Purdue’s favor—felt almost anticlimactic.That swing came in the form of a missed backhand volley by No. 3 Junior Dan Nguyen with the score knotted at 10-10 in a third set tiebreaker. The volley did not stretch Nguyen much?...