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...sitting here, on ground cleared by dedicated Calvinists in a library that was built because a large boat, the Titanic, happened to sink, reading of how English peasants who had journeyed to a new land are being oppressed by the Virginia aristocracy. They have written a letter of protest, nearly illiterate, signed by "one who has been in arms against the government" and another who "has been very busy in these times...
...after graduation from college," Stevenson observed, "most women have a large and obvious dicontinuity to face." He said that the life of the mind must "coexist with the life of the diaper and the kitchen sink," and asked if the future of yesterday's Radcliffe graduates must be a change "from scholar to slave...
...Patently Absurd." The amendments originated in the National Legislative Conference, an organization of state legislators and their staffers. Amendment No. 3 has hardly a chance of success. It is "so patently absurd," says Yale Law Professor Charles L. Black Jr., "that it will probably sink without a trace." Only four legislatures have endorsed it-Alabama, Arkansas, Florida...
...works in wood-logs, barrels and planks that she saws apart and nails together. At times her figures seem to be little more than crude painted cutouts; but their oddball incompleteness and the way painted surfaces suddenly and spontaneously emerge into sculpted forms are meticulously planned. Three dimensions sink into two; two grow into three in a sort of Marisol version of Hans Hofmann's theory of push-and-pull. Marisol's greatest ally is the power of free association. A pair of hands suggests arms that do not exist; the imaginary arms, in turn, suggest a body...
...three torpedoes. But to Japanese naval authorities their story seemed as full of holes as the Leap Forward herself. If the ship had really been torpedoed, they pointed out, its 59-man crew could hardly have escaped without the loss of a single life. Besides, who would want to sink an unarmed merchantman? The U.S. announced that it, for one, had no subs in the area. A more logical explanation lay in jagged Scott Rock, an ill-defined group of reefs barely beneath the surface 120 miles southwest of Korea. The head of Japan's Maritime Safety Board...