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...possibility that these people are monomaniacal monsters is never raised. Readers steeped in Earth's work-five earlier novels, including The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), and two collections of shorter fiction-may be able to deny or evade this issue. Art is pattern and design, after all, not morality. Or, on another front: a writer must use material, however unpleasant, not weep over or try to correct it. Fine. But those who feel claustrophobic in the presence of smug, self-deluded solipsism may also decide to skip the whole experience. Barth has often been a pleasant guide through...
...defense will undoubtedly use a number of Hinckley's rambling verses to buttress its portrayal of the would-be killer as a tortured psychotic who cannot be held accountable for his actions. "[Pretend] you are Satan's long-lost illegitimate son/ a solitary weed among the carnations," Hinckley wrote in one poem, "a child without a home/ the loser of a one-man race." Another verse notes: "I have become what I wanted to be all along, a psychopathic poet...
...Emerson was also a bundle and knot of contradictions. He recoiled against the doctrinal chill and constriction of New England, yet he became a sermon and a prayer. His rhapsodies were lovely and extremist in the way of a Puritan metaphysician: "I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall." -By Lance Morrow
Tufts' student employment agency was founded last year, and Director Bernard Pakala contacted other campuses in the area to learn about Southwestern. He discovered that it "wasn't well liked" and was skeptical because recruiters didn't seem to try "to weed out the non-salesmen...
Some great international expositions will always be remembered affectionately for their cultural flair and technical innovations. Others, particularly some recent, much ballyhooed U.S. fairs, have left only debts and deserted weed fields. Chances are good, however, that no one will knock the Knoxville fair, which opens this week and closes in October...