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...Bennett Street transit yards hide their dirty insides from the outer world. A seven-foot wall, smeared with the faded paint of overzealous Dartmouth fans, watches over Boylston Street. A high steel fence stands sentinel on Memorial Drive as the ugly eyes of old subways stare out at passing cars...
Viet Cong prisoners seldom squeal on their Red buddies, and when they do their information is usually useless. Some are so terrified-and ignorant-that they babble meaninglessly to interrogators. Still others respond to questions with a sullen, defiant stare. But last week two captured terrorists led U.S. troops to some hot and fruitful fighting...
...bury The Speculative Significance of the Inner Action of the Market under Sam Snead's How to Hit a Golf Ball? An antithetical quandary faces the Communer with Nature who vows that reading is the curse of civilization and goes off to a remote isle to stare into space. After four days of memorizing every label in the medicine cabinet and pantry, he appears wild-eyed in the nearest drugstore and hauls off The Ambassadors, Jude the Obscure, Conversations with Stalin, three old Margery Al-linghams and Pornography...
...Middle. Pacing back and forth behind his desk, occasionally stopping to stare through the tall windows at the White House lawn, Moyers composes his answers coolly, without hesitation. He never says, "I think," or "I believe." He knows. He took much of the sting out of a recent speech by Senator Robert Kennedy belaboring the Administration for not doing more to check the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Said Moyers when queried: "If you go back and look at the President's speech at Johns Hopkins, when he said we are not going to build the kind of world...
...Russian icon with its blank-eyed stare and stiff frontal figures was, next to shop signs, the art he knew best. Those Eastern images lean away from pictorial realism toward symbolism, and he loved them, as he says, because they are both "magical and unreal...