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...think I'm kidding, but I'm not. Although the IBSTSR exists only in unspoken association, tall people are uniting. They have taken to forming clubs, as I read in Tuesday's Washington Post. An article in the metro section ("Metro" section. Coincidence? I think not) said that there are a combined 150 members in the Washington and Baltimore Tall Clubs, and that there are 65 chapters worldwide of Tall Clubs International...
...confident enough not to need the Tall Clubs International, but I do like to know that it's out there. I much prefer the unspoken bonds I have with my fellow tall person--the subway nods, the silent empathy, the knowing gazes...
After that we grew quite close, drawn together by a common mode of conversation, the same general appreciation of comic nonsense (though sometimes he would issue a cold, dry laugh at something that seemed absolutely sensible to me), and by some unspoken sense of sadness. We circumvented the subject of politics whenever possible. He was appalled by my liberalism; I was enraged by his approval of Nixon and the Vietnam...
...Scarlet Pimpernel of those illusive qualities, grace and charm. He made his living mysteriously--producing and arranging--but when he appeared, in drawing-room comedy revivals, his welcomes were thunderous. He pretended astonishment but basked in the warmth of these tributes to his essential quality: old-fashioned, unspoken gallantry...
...violence we dont know how to confront is the violence of exclusion-the violence of a system that forbids its brightest students from studying what they love, that purposefully works its most promising talents to the point of exhaustion and despair. It is a subtle, unspoken, cold kind of violence, all the more disturbing for its complete lack of passion. It is a violence so ethereal that it is almost impossible to name, though a play like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human...