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...able even to mark the 'partial, contingent, incremental truths of Moderns, let alone the truths of the Ancients. On Looking into the Abyss is a lucid explanation to those like Paul De Man who, when they looked into the abyss and walked away smiling, should really have wept...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: Himmelfarb Pushes Post-structuralism Into the Abyss | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...glassy, unseeing gaze of open dead eyes, roared out to the distant heavens a dreadful rasping whoop that sounded like the hounds of hell were barking." The intern on duty assured Nuland he had done all that could be done. Conscious only of his failure, the doctor-to-be wept uncontrollably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing the Last Chapter | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...proud of them. They showed courage in their selections. As a matter of fact, I wept when I read Sean Wissman's piece. Many men love figure skating, but few admit...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Two Confessions | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...Back in the mid-eighties, when I was a wee bairn of thirteen, President Ronald Reagan was one of my greatest heroes. He forced this great country back to the ideals I held dear: humility, selflessness, obedience. I blamed the hostage crisis on Carter; I nearly wept when he lit the Statue of Liberty's torch on the Fourth of July; I called the news media a bunch of bleeding hearts for belaboring that overblown Iran-Contra thing. When other kids wore black armbands on their Underroos after Carter lost the presidency to Reagan, I danced in mine...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Here She Comes, Miss Peninsula | 12/4/1993 | See Source »

...Hampshire farm girl, but you'd think she was someone stepping out of Italian opera because she always expresses her feelings. My father didn't express them much in words, but he was a man who would weep. I was lucky. He was not lucky because he wept a whole...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Making Poetry Work: A Conversation with Donald Hall | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

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