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...bright morning poured throught the wide open doors of the church, intruding on the thick chill that hung within the heavy stone walls. The bell signalling mass had rung a few minutes before, and campesinos were now entering for the Sunday service. Few of them actually lived in Morochata, the village served by the church. They were, instead, from the surrounding campo, the countryside, where they lived and farmed in small communities of clustered huts up in the mountains. Their full dark-skinned faces and thick skull and cheekbones showed that they were pure Quechua Indians, unlike the people...
Armchair jocks are not the only ones who remember Fitzsimmons, however. One insider who should know, Tom Sanders, regrets the senior's decision to sit it out. "The gentleman can play basketball," Sanders said before the Penn-Princeton weekend. "We had expected to have him back in the thick of the league race...
...porches a family sat as if for a portrait, children in parents' laps. But they all had bug-eyes twisted slightly toward the sides of their heads. They seemed unaware of this: The kids had thick glasses, and the smallest girl had light blue pixie glasses with sparkles in them. Behind the glasses her tremendous eyes seemed miles away.--Beside them in the duplex lived a lone man who watched television and gestured angrily at the government with the stump...
...houses were built in the eighties or nineties by, we fantasized, a craftsman who while still a boy had come back from Lee's troops--Lee's Miserables, as one good Baptist preacher punned--or Johnson's, retreating north from Sherman. (Sherman's Memoirs, horribly written, in a thick green volume with the general's stars on the spine, talks about approaching Exeter...
...laughed about Fitz's attempted feat of strength as he walked us down through the dark stairways and thick electronically controlled sliding doors to the front steps. We shook hands and Fitz headed, unescorted, for his room and we got into our cars and drove...