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...that moment could not last forever in a land whose central idea from the first Pilgrim landfall onward has been physical and spiritual renewal, the fresh start, the future in which literally anything is possible. Often in their history Americans have returned to that theme of vigorous dawn departures-physically to the frontier, spiritually in the Great Awakening, socially through the immense renovation of the New Deal...
...tough, deal-cutting, back-slapping politician, and at the same time a warm, disarmingly rumpled matron. During her 28 years in public life, Connecticut's Ella Grasso never lost an election. In an era when feminism was just beginning to dawn in the male preserve of politics, she became the first U.S. woman Governor ever elected in her own right (a few others followed their husbands). Admirers talked about Grasso as a future Vice President or Cabinet member, but she preferred Hartford to Washington. She kept a sign in her living room: BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED...
Lapotaire renders Piaf, the diminutive poet-songstress of the pre-dawn city blues, with matchless psychological fidelity. She gives us Piaf, whom the French called the Sparrow, as an eagle in courage. She makes us know Piaf soul-seared, the Paris gutter urchin, the cagey whore whom the world came to hold in the embrace of fame but who could not keep her own life from seeping through her splayed fingers, at 47 in 1963 spent by alcohol, morphine, sex and cancer...
...occasion for the new court ruling was somewhat different. The defendants, who appealed their conviction to the high court after losing two appeals in Florida, were former Miami Beach Policemen Noel Chandler and Robert Granger. In the pre-dawn hours of May 23,1977, they showed up at Picciolo's Restaurant and stole $5,700. An insomniac ham radio operator six miles away happened to overhear their walkie-talkie conversation and recorded it. That tale was surefire television drama. Since the Florida Supreme Court had approved a one-year experiment with televised trials throughout the state, a single, unobtrusive...
...imagine the delight of the administration if all student protests involved nothing more controversial than a desire to read books into the dawn hours. But one set of issues will not wither away for Harvard or for Bok: the quality of life for minority students here. Since Bok spoke on race relations and minority issues at Commencement last spring, a series of unsettling incidents has occurred...