Word: woes
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...read with interest your story on CARP's new campaign to woe Harvard students out of their immoral love nests and into Rev. Sun Myung Moons outstretched arms. Our eyes widened the most though, at CARP's methods and at the organization's new campus leader, Richard Panzer...
...lives on the West Bank cannot escape some sort of contact with the Israeli soldiers. For many of us, this is often brutal and dehumanizing. They hassle people at whim. They stop and search cars, sometimes even knocking off the hubcaps. They demand to see identity cards, and woe to that person who has forgotten to carry his with him. After being harassed once, I make certain I have my ID at hand before I even get dressed in the morning...
Ezra is the dreamer who nurtures the novel's most enduring illusion. He runs a restaurant as if his soups and stews could cure loneliness and disappointment. The permutations of food and woe inspire him: "Why not a restaurant full of refrigerators, where people came and chose the food they wanted? . . . Or maybe he could install a giant fireplace, with a whole steer turning slowly on a spit. You'd slice what you liked onto your plate and sit around in armchairs eating and talking with the guests at large. Then again, maybe he would start serving only...
...deepest American dilemma regarding excellence arises from the nation's very success. The U.S. has been an astonishing phenomenon- excellent among the nations of the world. But as the prophet Amos said, "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion." It is possible to have repose, or to have excellence, but only some decorative hereditary monarchs have managed to simulate both. Success has cost Americans something of their energetic desire...
...audience does thrill to it. Rhetoric though they be, Miller's fiery prophecies of revolution, Reiffel's well-padded complacency and the workers' vignettes of woe create a momentum that overcomes the pragmatic 1980s assumption that "nothing is ever that simple." Director Josh Milton's fine sense of timing and placement melds the difficult mancuvers of lockstep group motion and robot-like dance rhythms to reinforce a visceral feeling of brewing social pressure, of the inevitable coming explosion...