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...independence and was distinctly unhappy about the pro-Pakistan sympathies of the so-called seven majors who overthrew him. Although the majors were ousted last month in a bewildering series of coups and countercoups (TIME, Nov. 17), Bangladesh's new military rulers, headed by Major General Zia-Ur Rahman, have apparently carried on their predecessors' policy of less dependence on India and closer ties with Pakistan and China...
...Dacca to protest the escape of the majors, Khondakar resigned and was replaced by Sayem. Real power, however, seemed to lie with a ten-man military council. The council's heads included Major General Khalid Musharraf, who almost immediately arrested and displaced his boss, Lieut. General Zia-Ur Rahman, as army chief of staff...
What, finally, is the new moral of the ancient story of language? That in language, as in fife, people end up with what they want-and perhaps deserve. The cryptic Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ur-father of the new linguistics, who spoke best in aphorisms, put it thus: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." One's words, for better and for worse, define one's reality, and what you say is what you get. "Melvin Maddocks
...pall of being abandoned by God....over this child and her entire future." Accordingly Lou's successive mentors served the substitute function. From her childhood tutor, a pastor 25 years her elder, to her husband, who was "never her husband in the accepted sense of the word," to the Ur-father of the psychoanalytic movement, each took his turn in the position of the revered and remote paternal divine. As the correspondance itself testifies, the last and greatest of Lou's holy men seems to have fulfilled his post to perfection...
...will you still be o-ur...