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...before I fall victim to the trauma of exams and the subsequent housecleaning upstairs, I've decided to sort out a few random thoughts. In a week or two, they might be gone, swept out with the major battles at Constantinople...
...tone of self-mockery is reinforced by the inclusion of a "random Cole Porter song" at the beginning of the show. Unfortunately, "Two Little Babes in the Woods" a 1924 Porter composition, is probably the best number in the show, setting unrealistically high expectations for an otherwise dull performance...
...murderer. Yet, had the killer been an African American, we fear that white society would have sanctioned an equally odorous crime, the scope of which could not be measured. Boston seemed to be on the verge of rescinding fundamental civil rights of Black males with its policies of random search and seizure...
...Difference Principle should have a powerful intuitive appeal for citizens of a democratic society. Since none of us can control the random factors of genetics, family background, and plain dumb luck that determine our earning power and financial resources, it seems clearly unjust to let the disadvantaged "lose" in an economic lottery which no one has any power to avoid...
...work, scholars have suggested, came in 1938. As Beckett walked along a Paris street, a panhandler stabbed him in the chest, perforating a lung and narrowly missing his heart. When Beckett later asked why the attack happened, the assailant replied, "I don't know, sir." That glimpse of the random perils of existence may have confirmed Beckett's dark vision but did not initiate it. His novel Murphy, published the same year, depicts a destitute Irishman, living in London, who daydreams away his days in a rocking chair until a gas plant explodes and shreds him. At his instruction...