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...ordinary yet startling as the seasons. The shaping powers of Autumn introduce themselves in the first sentence of the book as effortlessly as in nature: Time--arrested, slowed, kneaded by memory and chance, centuries disturbed like dust, recalled like a dream; Power--huge, inevitable, mysterious even to its wielder; Death--arriving at an unex-pected moment, as a carrion bird or in a penitent's garb; and, finally, the rituals of everyday life, expressed in the prepositional phrases, uncapitalized, unpersonified, that begin the book with "over the weekend" and end it with the drawing of the "uncountable time...
...economic power would temporarily command. Indeed, many economists fear that high wage demands are about to replace shortages as the prime inflationary force in the economy-and the Government cannot persuade labor leaders to moderate them unless it makes a conscientious effort to restrain business too. The President, as wielder of the nation's largest jawbone, should define what wage and price behavior is responsible and focus public opinion pressure against increases that violate the guidelines. In order to assure that he is listened to, he needs the authority to order occasional rollbacks...
Billy Graham? Oral Roberts? Not quite. The speaker is Lester Maddox, former Governor and now Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, onetime wielder of ax handles to keep blacks away from his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta, and one of the hottest speakers these days on the U.S. fundamentalist circuit...
...provost, Bowen has been the chief ax wielder during a period of severe financial crisis at the school. He used his expertise on the economics of higher education to help trim back a projected $5,500,000 deficit for the current school year to a more manageable $900,000 loss. Bowen managed to maintain a reputation for accessibility and for fair-minded analysis even among those at the university who were hurt by the cuts. In the economy drive, athletics funds were trimmed and the entire graduate program in Slavic studies is being phased out to avoid weakening other disciplines...
Necessary Addition. The knottiest point for the justices was an earlier California Supreme Court decision that simply pointing a gun at someone is not "sufficiently provocative of lethal resistance" to support a charge of murder against surviving accomplices when the gun wielder is killed. Thus the issue in this case was whether the murder charge against Taylor could be justified by something his buddies did to incite Mrs. West that was even more provocative than waving a gun. According to the court majority, the verbal threat of "execution" and the agitated demeanor of the gunmen provided the necessary additional provocation...