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...week before the speech--given by Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael--a Maryland state delegate, David Shapiro, attempted to block funding from the Black Student Union (BSU) for the event, saying that Toure's appearance was strictly political. The Diamondback, the university's campus newspaper, reported last month...
...Shapiro, a Zen Buddhist, recalls that "Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi once said that one should not leave any traces of one's passage." Very much the adherent, Shapiro will no litter on the road on which he runs, but he certainly will muse at length about the remants of the drivers who preceded...
Plastic toys, combs, pornographic magazines, and shredded tires are all common in the roadside ditches. "Sometimes underpants from both sexes appeared." Shapiro writes, adding commonsensically that the offensive items were "rather frail and gamy items after exposure to desert weather...
...more conventional images of the landscape abound, too, in Shapiro's description of roadside America. By the time he finishes his trek, we have seen quite enough "green rolling land and pure white houses," to make us long for the squalid city at the end of the line. We have been innundated with "the whine and hiss of traffic" and have breathed so much of the thin mountain air that gives "the sky an extra vibrant richness" that we are gasping for oxygen. The book, like the journey, has its grueling stretches...
...never find out just why James Shapiro is out there, a forlorn pedestrian on the road in the middle of Nebraska. But this lonely, displaced New Yorker has something to say about being alone, and the phenomenon of a man challenging himself, running for running's sake...