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...real blast, a superbash, a party unlike any other party, ever. It stretched from coast to coast, from dawn to the small hours and then some-a glorious and gigantic birthday wingding that mobilized millions for a gaudy extravaganza of parades and picnics, rodeos and regattas, fireworks and other festivities too numerous to catalogue. It was an altogether fitting celebration of the 200th anniversary of America's independence, and perhaps the best part of it was that its supreme characteristics were good will, good humor and, after a long night of paralyzing self-doubt, good feelings about...
...struggle between man and insects began long before the dawn of civilization, has continued without cessation to the present time, and will continue, no doubt, as long as the human race endures. We commonly think of ourselves as the lords and conquerors of nature. But insects had thoroughly mastered the world and taken full possession of it before man began the attempt. They had, consequently, all the advantage of possession of the field when the contest began, and they have disputed every step of our invasion of their original domain so persistently and successfully that we can even yet scarcely...
...dawn's early light will first strike the continental U.S. at 4:31 on July 4 at Mars Hill...
...candidates, the "ordeal" of the primaries may have required airplane hops, and dawn appearances at factory gates, and facial muscles tightened into frozen smiles, but the long march did not really involve much intellectual strain. The shrewdest among them had their act well in place and The Speech well learned. They solved the problem of television, with its terrible rate of consuming new material, by going back to the era of vaudeville acts, when Burns and Allen or Weber and Fields could play the same skit week after week from coast to coast, testing new lines, honing the delivery, refining...
...weeks, after flying to Kyoto, the next stop on the itinerary, classes were thrice weekly, as much for the security of having a mini-U.S.A. as for the discussions on the nature of the culture. Organized field trips explored various parts of the land from Kabuki theater to dawn fish markets. A tatami-mat coffee house near Ginkaku-ji temple that served saki and played early Dylan became an after-hours meeting place for many in the group, including the faculty...