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...this point. it need hardly be noted that by simple withdrawal the radicals would be striking a stronger blow to the existing institutions than they could by any direct confrontation. These institutions need the radical students and the radical professors for their academic talent. The reason these institutions have gotten their way in the past is that they have pulled the stronger bluff: they had convinced the students and professors that they had nowhere else to turn...
Regan had been concerned about how the team would react to its first loss, but losing to Navy was not at all damaging psychologically. "We were happy with that game, and actually, if we had won, we might have gotten overconfident," he said...
Dawn was coming, the first light of day an ugly unpromising gray thing as always in the south of California. The water had gotten cold. Merilee stretched her toes up and slowly turned on a dribble of hot. Sam, sleeping head on her breast, stirred and she ran her fingers through his hair to soothe him back to sleep...
...happened for the best, Sam. If Girl and I hadn't gotten lockjaw from being barefoot we would never have come home, I would never have met Alyosha and joined the South Coast Tribe. I would never have been there watching the stars at Palomar and you would never have found Girl and me hitchhiking to Ceres...
When they had set out for Mexico, Merilee had been worried they wouldn't find any dope right away so she had scrounged around and gotten together some exorbitantly-priced lids. These she dumped into a saucepan of butter. When heated, the butter separated, the white stuff and the weed went down and the clarified stuff, or ghee, and the essence of the marijuana surfaced. Cooled and solidified, the clear part was scooped into an oil can which came to Mexico cradled in the spare tire. A dab made Merilee and Sam happier until noon and everybody else none...