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Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish Holy Cross thus forsworn, or to dispraise Harvard with that same tongue which I hath prais'd it with above compare so may thousand times? Go, predictions, thou and my school spirit henceforth shall be twain...
North Carolina and Richard Lamm of Colorado, now in their second terms. One suspects the veteran Indiana Congressman and former Majority Whip John Brademas, now president of New York University, has not forsworn politics for all time...
...York Times declared: "There is no point wailing about what might have been." Possibly. But that palliative countermands all the earlier sage advice proffered by that selfsame publication, and by this one and by every other voice that lobs words against tanks. The P.L.O. could have forsworn terrorism with words. Britain, Argentina and Israel could have negotiated with words. All took other ways. That may be the abiding basis for dissatisfaction with these two victories; that and the reappearance of the monster nationalism, which, at the slightest chance, turns civilizations back to tribes...
...weapons in the world has conjured such a fear of war that hope and conscience have promoted a countering fantasy: we half persuade ourselves that we have already given up war. The fight in the Falklands seems all the more strange because it ought to be an atavism, something forsworn. It should not be happening...
This is a nostalgia gone delightfully mad, and the reader is happy to inhale it by the cubic yard. But it comes flirtatiously close to novelizing, a practice Keillor claims in a funny preface to have forsworn after one grotesquely bad unpublishable failure. He writes short pieces, he says, in homage to The New Yorker's former great infield of James Thurber, A.J. Liebling, S.J. Perelman and E.B. White...