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...houses burnt and a bomb fell about fifteen meters from where my father was ploughing, causing the blown up earth and the shrapnel to kill my father and the buffalo instantly... My sister and I ran over to him, but I saw that my father was already dead. I wept and then I carried him out of the field...
...such things as the Divine Comedy, the Revelations of St. John and the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh with a story whose surfaces occasionally resemble All in the Family. Happily Gardner is on record as believing that a novelist should tolerate, even affirm the banal and the ordinary. "When Dickens wept over Little Nell," he says, "it was not because he was a subtle metaphysician. He mistook her for human...
...demand; an escape, not a task. He was an hallucinogen approved for private use by the Food and Drug Administration." Like some of their counter-culture predecessors, these new Jesus people repeatedly tell themselves how happy they are now. As Wills notes, Jesus, who is said to have wept over cities and been "sorrowful unto death," was obviously no Jesus freak...
...make another General Billy Mitchell of Admiral Zumwalt? The admirals who oppose him are the same as the ones who wept when Mitchell's planes dropped dummy bombs on their battle wagons, the same as the ones who lined up the battle wagons at Pearl Harbor to scare the Japanese. They have always been guided by rigid stupidity. I don't believe the conflict is basically racial. It was the same in World War II with no blacks. If officers treat men justly and fairly, the men will respect them and carry out orders...
During last summer's Munich Olympics, Soviet Gymnast Olga Korbut twirled and flipped spectacularly, then went to pieces and made a disastrous muddle of her second appearance. She wept in shame, and the sports world fell in love with her. Olga recovered and carried home two gold medals. Now it turns out that she is suffering from a slipped disk and has been sent to a spa in the Caucasus for complete rest. "We hope Olga will be able to perform again," says her trainer, "but it is not possible to say when...