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Otherwise, as Orwell said of war-torn England,"Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible...
...original contours and use, thereby limiting surface mining to areas where such reclamation was possible. Moreover, the bill would have extracted fees from the coal companies (35? per ton for surface mining, 25? per ton for underground mining) to finance restoration of the more than 1 million acres torn up by strip miners. One probable effect of the bill would have been the forced closing of a number of marginal surface mines in Appalachia...
...male undergraduates at Harvard afraid of love? Caroline W. Bynum, associate professor of Church History at the Divinity School, thinks they are and suggested why in a recent article in the Radcliffe Quarterly. Torn between a broad cultural pattern that prescribes male dominance and a subculture that idealizes equality, men in universities today shy away from love relationships, says Bynum. At the same time, new demands for honesty and openness conflict with the traditional image of the strong, silent type. These problems are exacerbated by increasing insecurity about the future and a prolonged adolescence...
...teeth or pierce an eye socket. Swords sever heads. Armies mow down opposing ranks like "a line of reapers formed, who cut a swath/ in barley or wheat." Death spreads across the pages like a pool of ink-"numbing darkness," "unending night." Awesome griefs are recorded. Hair gets torn, ashes smeared. But when a mourning fast is proposed, the answer is: "So many die, so often, every day,/ when would soldiers come to an end of fasting...
...young girl with the grocery list of lovers and the rock star torn 'twixt licentiousness and reflection sometimes join the new landowner to worry about the isolation that comes from first-class travel and hilltop mansions...