Although Gore's service in Vietnam is usually held up as an example of his devotion to his father — he enlisted in part because it seemed required by the 1970 campaign — Halberstam's article in Harper's suggests that the father might actually have liked the idea of running a campaign alongside a son who refused to go to Vietnam.
This, too, seems both too thin and too severe as a criterion of perfection standing alone: too thin, because anyone suitably superficial and complacent might will the eternal return; too severe, because it seems to require that a post-Holocaust Goethe gladly will the repetition of the Holocaust.
This computationally intensive approach seems required because permuting SNPs or genes directly destroys the correlation structure.
Narrative omniscience seems required to produce a novel that appears to do justice to a complicated city, but not just because it allows for so many viewpoints.
When I started writing – like many, many others – I chose the short story, because it seemed to require minimal commitment and to be small enough to handle, even for me.
Others had suggested using eminent domain to seize mortgages — three years ago, twenty-seven Democrats in Congress urged the Treasury to institute a national program — but, because it seemed to require a huge government effort, no one had tried to put condemnation into action.
Others had suggested using eminent domain to seize mortgages three years ago, twenty-seven Democrats in Congress urged the Treasury to institute a national program but, because it seemed to require a huge government effort, no one had tried to put condemnation into action.
The moment was powerful because it seemed to require something extra of the priest, something I don't know if I'd be prepared to give.
Not least because it seems that the modern family requires three cells knocked together to sleep in prison-chic comfort.
I always marvel at good short stories, because it seems to me that it requires a certain kind of skill to cope with their… shortness.
