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...people who come here tend to be sharp and vibrant in the beginning, with past successes suspended from their belts like scalps. Getting on, they want to clear out of the way before anybody perceives them as holding up traffic. So they pay a generous sum to enter and a healthy monthly stipend to stay; these spent funds preserve dignity, purchase perpetual care. In their day, they had attended their own parents until the end came, usually in an upstairs bedroom. Their children are aware of that and are slightly ashamed. For their part, the parents are enormously relieved...
...bench. In modern times, they have not hesitated to pass judgment on such basic moral issues as abortion and the death penalty. Indeed, over the past three decades, the Brethren, as the nine Justices are still called even though a woman has joined their ranks, have given such vibrant life to the constitutional guarantees of equality and individual liberty that American society stands transformed...
...turned on the television to watch Teen Dance Party or something and saw a young man, a vibrant man, on the television, " Thomas Axworthy, policy advisor to former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, said in a burst of enthusiastic candor. "He told us that if we could channel our energy into politics we could change the world " The man was then candidate for President John I. Kennedy...
...mention these commercial risks, though, is to take a Hapsburg Emperor's narrow view of art's bottom line. Amadeus may be a popular film for the same reason it is a good one: it paints, in vibrant strokes, an image of the artist as romantic hero. The textbook Mozart, embalmed in immortality, comes raucously alive as a punk rebel, grossing out the Establishment, confuting his chief rival, working himself to death in an effort to put on paper songs no one else can hear. Who among us cannot sympathize, even identify, with such an icon of iconoclasm...
Your articles and photographs of the Olympics [SPECIAL REPORT, July 30] were magnificent. It was wonderful to see and read about young people who are vibrant, healthy and beautiful. We should have the Olympics every year...