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...What surprises him most about his job--the second-ranking position in a college of 1700 undergraduates and 150 full-time faculty members--is that "you can actually do something. The leap is extraordinary," he admits. "I couldn't believe that they (the committee that picked Stanley after a search last spring) really wanted...
Later, when he traveled to Peking in search of a job as a librarian, scholars laughed at his southern (Hunan) dialect. In this respect, Wilson said, Mao resembles leaders, all of whom came from outlying provinces, such as Napolean, a Corsican, Hitler, an Austrian, and Stalin, a Georgian...
...sharp contrast to the rehashed cliches offered by his opponents, Anderson displays his own ideas and a will to implement them. Unlike other Republicans in search of the presidential nomination, his is a voice of reason meriting attention...
...West tensions low. Western Europe is more vulnerable than the U.S.; the Soviet Union is hundreds, not thousands, of miles away. The French also have an economic stake in détente: last year trade between the two nations amounted to $3.7 billion. Yet too often France's search for independence translates as paranoia about seeming to take orders from Washington...
...young hero is an angry, obsessed loner with penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher who fakes blindness (Harry Dean Stanton), a zookeeper (Daniel Shor) in search of an animalistic deity, an evangelical merchandising expert (Ned Beatty) and some sex-starved belles (Amy Wright, Mary Nell Santacroce). Huston has great affection for these people, even if Hazel does not: the misfits are celebrated not only for their lunacies but for their comic inability to square their passions with...