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...Jesse L. Jackson is the notable exception, which perhaps explains why the Mondale campaign so cravenly sought his endorsement. But even with the redoubtable Reverend on his side. Mondale cannot project the appeal he needs, and his supporters have not managed to find enough celebrities to fill the void--one reason for his long gap in the polls...
...shuttle, acts as an Olympian wrist, snapping off the satellite from the cargo bay in a slow spin that quickens to 30 r.p.m. once in space. The following day, a PAM-driven AT&T satellite was set free. Said Mission Control as the last cylinder twirled into the void: "That's three for three...
...million blacks are completely excluded from the new Parliament, some critics regard it as a divide-and-conquer strategy to set blacks against coloreds and Indians. The United Nations Security Council, with the U.S. and Britain abstaining, last week condemned the new South African constitution as "null and void...
This lack of guidance is my biggest gripe about my college experience. We felt and knew there was a void but found the male tutors little help except in preparing for graduate school. The two Radcliffe deans seemed oriented to PhD. work. Our education did not seem to have direction for itself. We had worked hard, harder than many of our Harvard classmates, and done well. We felt triumphant academically at graduation but very unsure...
...before, the author concentrates memory and feelings into a small space: "He had once heard Paul Tillich lecture at Chicago, and when he spoke of the void, bringing the word up from deep inside his body, you could feel it, feel the emptiness and the terror of the emptiness." That terror stalks Everett through seven separate phases, from early childhood to late middle age. After his mother's death in childbirth, young John is raised by maternal grandparents in Michigan. The introverted boy derives his notion of love from medieval romances, and the real world seems a strange, indecipherable...