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...novel The Public Burning, Robert Coover satirized the myth from the mordant angle of Watergate America: "Throughout the solemn unfolding of the American miracle, men have noticed this remarkable phenomenon: what at the moment seems to be nothing more than the random rise and fall of men and ideas, false starts and sudden brainstorms, erratic bursts of passion and apathy, brief setbacks and partial victories, is later discovered to be-in the light of America's gradual unveiling as the New Athens, New Rome and New Jerusalem all in one -an inevitable sequence of interlocking events, a divine code...
...Random Winds, Plain (2 last week...
...most disturbing aspects of the bombings was that they were the work of experts. The attacks had been well planned and coordinated by a team of terrorists; they clearly were not random acts by one or two individual troublemakers. The grim possibility was that the mayors had been the targets of an underground Jewish terrorist organization. If this should prove to be true, it would introduce a new and frightening dimension into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...Random Winds, Plain...
Lannon and other school department officials have argued that redistricting alone would solve racial balance problems only temporarily and that population shifts would soon unbalance the system again unless the zone plan was in a place to allow random assignments of new students...