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...past I had felt contempt for friends who deserted education for the almighty dollar, but when I find my salary lower than all save the sewing machine operator and the bartender in your random sample of pay, it's time to forget about both honor and education and time to think about paying the mortgage and feeding the kids...
Even discounting the anti-Amin bias of the Kenyan press, Western diplomats in Africa were inclined to believe that there had been an attempt on his life. They also thought it probable that some form of vengeful slaughter was going on inside the country. Under Amin, after all, random killing has become a ghoulish national pastime...
...Bean Blossom, pup tents and trailers were parked at random in the 100-acre park that is owned by Monroe and serves as the festival site. Away from the stage, a concessionaire offered bargain prices on dusty fruit jars, secondhand cookware, some 1950s sheet music and a chipped enamel bedpan. Other vendors sold straw hats, hard-to-get bluegrass records, Martin guitar strings and $1 plates of sausage gravy and biscuits. Red-white-and-blue garbage cans stood under the trees, next to inelegant eight-seater outhouses...
...Season in the Sun never quite captures the same rosy glow of a middle-aged kid rummaging through the old baseball cards in his musty attic. Kahn's latest work has no purpose, nostalgic or otherwise; rather, it is a random collection of essays, each designed to illuminate a different facet of the game. And while the cheesy smell of old newsprint may be gone, along with the saintly aura that decades-old newsreel film seems to lend the athletes of a bygone era, there is still enough magic left in Kahn's writing to draw the reader into...
...pages. Random House...