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...Beatles? Fragmented. The unheard of Woodstock? While he was gone it was born, matured, grew senile and became a comic epitaph on an old emotion. Some stalwarts remain here too: Streisand, Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, The Stones. But who are the Partridge Family? Cheech and Chong? Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show...
...Just a fish hook," I said...
...Just like a fish hook," he said and took a hammer from his overalls. He drove one of the notorious nails into an upright beam in the barn, up to a quarter-inch from its head...
...curriculum which Monro has developed, as well as the honors program and the work-study option, act as intellectual and practical circuits between Miles' students, the black community and the city of Birmingham. "Our job is to hook Miles into the power structure of Birmingham," he says. Monro's view of education coincides with the double commitment of the college which Arrington described, and accounts for the dual set of problems which Miles faces. Yet Monro consistently maintains a low profile--which perhaps is the reason he has been so effective. "A white man can work at a black college...
...sunny afternoon on a branch of the muddy Mekong. I was on one of the Navy's small converted landing craft used as staging points in the watery interior. Suddenly a sailor casually noted, "There's a floater off the stern. Hell, where's the boat hook...