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...about eleven, my dad came home and gathered us all in the kitchen. He held up a tiny little transistor he had brought home and said, "This is the future." I took the transistor from his hand, and I put it in my mouth. And I swallowed it. Dad laughed, then he didn't laugh; it got very tense. It was like the confrontation scene between Raymond Massey and James Dean in East of Eden. One of those moments when two worlds from diametrically opposed positions in the universe collide. It was as if I was saying, "That's your...
...fill a job for which there is a shortage of applicants in the U.S. or be a refugee facing persecution at home. Each category has bred its schemes and near scams. The easiest and most popular is the sham marriage. "Some are so phony they don't pass the laugh test," says Washington Lawyer Michael Maggio. In some cases prostitutes have been hired to say "I do" to aliens they have never...
...West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain, and smiled: "Thank you, Prior, for we have been praying all day for the weather to improve." The quip brought a laugh from Kohl's companion, French President Francois Mitterrand...
...treated in the University. They were meant to encourage revolution--but somehow they have been made acceptable by being presented as menu items on the food-for-thought list. Learn all about feminism, Marxism, and liberation theology--but beware of taking them seriously; you never know who'll laugh at you. Harvard is full of Cabbage Patch Radicals--most people don't really take them seriously, but they invite a couple of Cabbage Patch Radicals to their parties anyway...
Although Plausible Prejudices is sometimes a book of mourning for today's readers--Epstein inexplicably ignores such Southern writers as Eudora Welty. Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy, whose works he ought to enjoy--readers who share his prejudices will laugh and cheer as he lays waste the bad guys. Even for those who don't. Epstein's prose reaches the level of artistry, and should be appreciated as such--as a thing well-made...