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...railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high on her toes, poised for dancing. "Play that last measure softly," she said...
Champagne corks were popping in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon when the call came from the vanquished to the victor. "Well, Mr. President, you're tough," said Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "You beat us." Indeed he had, and with surprising ease. In the final legislative battle over Ronald Reagan's economic program, 48 House Democrats deserted their party to help the President win a 238-to-195 victory on a vote for a bill that provides the largest tax cut in U.S. history. "We have made a new beginning," exulted the President...
Trident's failure cannot be altogether blamed on its Newbury Street address, however. Directly across the street, Victor Hugo Books proclaims, "Most of our rights have already been traded away by those who prefer the safety of government control to the anarchy of individual freedom. Very few people understand the Faustian bargain they have made. This shop is dedicated to those who have rejected the bargain. It is open to those who might reconsider." "Anarchy"? "Faustian bargain"? That's pure bohemia. Packed 12-foot bookshelves tower above Beringer and Johnnie Walker boxes overflowing with books. Rolling metal ladders facilitate browsing...
...even Victor Hugo can't beat Lucy Parsons. Stocking everything from Marx to Zinn to the crazy communist next door's most recent manifesto, the Lucy Parsons Center, a revolutionary bookstore in the heart of Central Square, defines unorthodoxy. Although the Square does have its own admirable revolutionary bookstore, conveniently called Revolution Books, it cannot compete with this Central counterpart...
...reminded of the words of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." A prominent plaque bearing this caveat should adorn the halls of Washington as a reminder that insidious power can destroy our great institutions, even the presidency. VICTOR E. DELUCIA Valley Village, Calif...