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Essay will also seek to anticipate a problem or an area of discussion before it reaches its peak of interest, thus having prepared the reader in advance. All big topics-and Essay will confine itself to the big and overriding questions-have a cyclical or recurring interest, and Essay will attempt to touch that interest at a time when an expository and reasoned discussion can be the most provocative...
King called for more marches-on segregated schools, on poverty and "on ballot boxes until race baiters disappear from the political arena." He lifted the crowd to a peak with a rhythmic, almost hypnotic chant: "I know you are asking today, 'How long will it take?' I come to say to you this afternoon however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long because truth pressed to earth will rise again. How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because you still reap what you sow. How long...
Bobby had acquitted himself well on an exploit he had undertaken rather reluctantly. Months ago, the National Geographic Society asked then Attorney General Bobby and his brother, Massachusetts' Senator Teddy Kennedy, to join in an assault on Mount Kennedy, a 14,000-ft. peak that had never been climbed. Part of the St. Elias Range, it was called East Hubbard* until the Canadian government renamed it in honor of the late President. Both Teddy and Bobby agreed to join the expedition, but then Teddy suffered a broken back in an airplane crash and had to withdraw...
Under these regulations, set up in January by Cambridge's traffic director Robert E. Rudolph, Central Squaro bound buses which used to stop in front of the Cambridge Trust Company now stop next to Lehman Hall. At peak hours of the day a line of six or eight buses extends from Harvard completely around the dog-leg of Mass...
Hale and other Harvard climbers we'c the top of another peak when "we someone yelling for help at the of the revine. We got down as at as we could, but Merrihue and Doody are in pretty bad shape--probably dead we gave them mouth to mouth respiration but it didn't do any good...