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That advice was hardly likely to console one Kalam Mia, who roamed through Chardarvesh village last week looking into the faces of 2,000 dead children in search of his ten-year-old son. He never found the boy. "And now," said a neighbor, "he raves like a madman, and in his eyes is an expression beyond words...
...mood may well cause a major revision in the exploits of Poland's most popular television spy. Poles have long thrilled to the heroics of Captain Klos, Warsaw's answer to James Bond, who consistently traps West German agents. Now Klos will probably have to search for different villains...
...most helpful, hopeful and even necessary way. Behind the glib label "identity" is the broad conviction that the ego is not some wavering horizon line between the superego and the id but an organized entity in which one can have what Erikson calls "accrued confidence." In the search for identity, even the generations are allowed a more positive role. Erikson was fascinated by G.B. Shaw's "eight years of solitude" spent trying to become a writer. Shaw's line "I work as my father drank" meant to Erikson that a child is capable of turning both the virtues...
Essential to Borges' vision is a conviction of oneness. To Borges, every human act, however slight, affects all other events. It is a world of perfect complicity. Little wonder that youthful readers in search of community find Borges a kindred spirit. Yet his work suggests that community is reached not by simply linking arms or sharing pot but through sacrifice...
...mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were also in wait for him -because he already divined a rumor of hexameters and glory, a rumor of men defending a shrine which the gods would not save and of black ships roaming the seas in search of a loved island...