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...never knew anything so nothing, Nichts, Nullus, niente, as the life here. Australians are always vaguely and meaninglessly on the go. That's what the life in a new country does to you: it makes you so material, so outward, that your real inner life and your inner self dies out, and you clatter around like so many mechanical animals... Yet the weird, unawakened country is wonderful...
Under Chou's direction, China once more turned outward. Ambassadors
...bankruptcy, despite the highest per capita tax load in the U.S., the city cannot afford a commercial hemorrhage. Trade and finance are the city's lifeblood, the main creators of new jobs and a major source of taxes, nourishing its coffers as well as its culture. Unless the outward migration of offices is reversed, even federal revenue sharing seems unlikely to keep New York from losing its economic vitality along with its solvency...
Valiance & Tenacity. Like Proust's madeleine, the tea cake that summoned up for the narrator of Remembrance of Things Past his childhood world of Combray, Follies has its touchstone of memory. The interiorized past is brought to life by an outward object, one of those old, ornate Broadway theaters. Designer Boris Aaronson has made of it a poignantly dilapidated shell where the spectral applause of a thousand opening nights hangs palpably in the air. The showplace is in the demolition phase, as are the people who enter it: chorus girls back for "a first and last reunion...
Most scientists now agree that the universe began with the cataclysmic explosion of an extremely dense primordial atom, and that the billions of star-filled galaxies, including the Milky Way, are still rushing outward from the original big bang. The speed of that expansion, astronomers have determined, is decreasing-slowed by the gravitational pull of the galaxies upon each other. What cannot be explained, however, is that the calculated mass of the universe's galaxies is only about one-tenth the amount required to produce that rate of deceleration. Where is the missing mass...