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...Tree of State. Instead of merely trimming the tree at its edges as the true conservative would do, or grafting on new branches as the liberal would do, Senator Goldwater would tear the tree out by its roots, leaving not the idyllic green pasture of Jeffersonian democracy but the torn black earth of destruction...
...track. The locomotive crashed into the derailed freight cars, did a right angle flip and sliced through the fifth and six coaches of the passenger train. The first rescuers recoiled from the carnage. Recalled one: "There were bodies piled four to six deep. There were legs, arms and heads torn off, all bloody, scattered everywhere. It was a horrible human version of a doll repair shop...
...most of the line to a snarl of sprung steel and splintered ties. Nearly half a century of desert winds and systematic depredation have done the rest. Bedouins ransacked the abandoned stations, pried loose wooden ties for cooking fires. In Medina the station house is a shell, its doors torn...
...sections. In the first Kazantzakis sketches the regions and principal cities of pre-Civil War Spain; at the end of this section, the description of a bull-fight provides a broader view of the Spanish national character. A few years after this trip, the author returned to find Spain torn by civil war, to discover "Madrid, once a charming, carefree, voluptuous princess...in flames." The part recording his second journey is more narrative than descriptive, more concerned with national events than with regional characteristics; nonetheless, Kazantzakis movingly paints the changes in the areas he had previously toured...
...South Side All-Stars lost 18 out of 40 men, two to broken legs, four to broken collarbones and twelve to "leg punctures"-caused by football cleats penetrating skin and muscle. But no matter. In nine seasons, Linebacker Walter ("Shorty") Sullivan of the Charlestown Townies has dislocated a shoulder, torn a knee cartilage and lost most of his visible front teeth. At 30, he still plays. "It relieves my tensions," he says...