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...Arnold flew home with a full moon rising. He had covered 550 miles. The people he had seen are not hermits in the real sense, not even xenophobic (they chatter all day on their radios; they welcome strangers who accompany Ray), so much as they are shot through with oldtime ornery independence, misfits with a thing against clocks. To understand what drew them here, one need only remember those maps where population density is shown by clusters of black dots--each dot representing 100,000 people, say--on a white background...
...sophisticated nation now lies to the west of England, on the far side of an ocean. In 1851 Arnold could stand in his country, gaze across the Channel at France and behold the world's two giants. These days one may behold the world's two giants from the moon or from the Bering Strait. But where, metaphorically, is our Dover Beach today? To Arnold, the divorce of intellect and feeling was the central ailment of his age. What is the central ailment...
From a similar window 134 years ago, Arnold beheld his progressive, aggressive world and began serenely: "The sea is calm tonight./ The tide is full, the moon lies fair/ Upon the Straits . . . Come to the window, sweet is the night air!" A long, successful life lay ahead of him. His new bride was near by. But by the end of the stanza, he was hearing the "eternal note of sadness" in the sea and the rolling of the pebbles, and by the second stanza, the "ebb and flow/ Of human misery" was overwhelming. The final lines of Dover Beach...
Some 2.5 billion people, more than half the earth's population, watched the Los Angeles Games. Not since Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon has America had such an opportunity to lift its best face to the world. Ueberroth arranged the showing. He took over the stage of the global village, the earth intricately interconnected, and he spectacularly presented the U.S. upon it. If such success represented a political manipulation of the Games, blame not American leaders but the irrepressible high spirits of Ueberroth's free enterprise...
...this film. The early shots of the great arch and the little train lost in the huge landscape propose the film's overarching theme?India as mysterious and maddening cavern?and then Lean starts the echoes rolling through it. When Mrs. Moore meets Aziz for the first time, the moon is reflected cool and tiny in a shimmering pool. It does not appear again until she has heard the fateful voice of the caves. Then, suddenly, it looms large over the shoulder of a forbidding monolith, itself reminiscent of a moonscape...