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...last pages of the concluding Defender, where Vic's born-again wife Gail is left feeling "strangely deflated." With Winton, that's middle age for you. And it's around this subject that his characters circle. Like the narrator of the best story, Aquifer, who drives to the city upon hearing about a body dredged from a swamp he lived near as a child: "My mind was elsewhere, traveling in loops and ellipses away from middle age on the all-night sound of the moving tide...
Almost without warning, Chavez had stumbled upon a path scarcely imaginable one year earlier as the Panthers launched themselves on their ill-fated effort for the state championship...
...among Harvard students has not felt the oppressive weight of the study card beat upon his or her brow? From the long, hard trek to Sever Hall to claim one’s card, one’s yoke, to the agony of filling out laboriously the myriad bubbles with obscure course numbers, to the patriarchal ritual of seeking out and gaining the approval of one’s academic adviser-cum-overlord, the study card is an institution without which Harvard students will be better...
...continued to expound upon my I-Decide-as-fascism theory when we convened the next afternoon before walking (“marching”) down to the footbridge...
Manent expressed skepticism that Western democracy could ever be forcibly imposed upon societies like Iraq that have not made the “spiritual decisions” of America, England and France to adopt democracy...