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...Tokyo International Airport. A record crowd of more than 4,000 was on hand to greet the returning hero as he flew home from Manila. Press helicopters hovered outside his Tokyo hospital window, while newspapers devoted full-page spreads to him. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka personally took writing brush in hand to inscribe ten poetic characters. The message: "The air of a heavenly hero will prove awesome through a thousand autumns...
...their own professional careers. There is no apparent connection between the style, subject matter, or medium of their work. Janet Abramowicz makes compositions out of wood and metal, Joanna Brandford is a weaver. Lois Charney is concerned with color theory in her abstract paintings, Juliet Kepes makes Japanese-like brush paintings and Marian Parry does tiny Steinbergesque drawings...
...enormous achievements of science in posting the universe that man inhabits, odd things keep slipping past the sentries. The tap on the shoulder may be fleeting, the brush across the cheek gone sooner than it is felt, but the momentary effect is unmistakable: an unwilling suspension of belief in the rational. An old friend suddenly remembered, and as suddenly the telephone rings and the friend is on the line. A vivid dream that becomes the morning reality. The sense of bumping into one's self around a corner of time, of having done and said just this, in this place...
However, the program for upperclassmen will meet different needs. "It will help juniors brush up on their writing if they want to write theses, and seniors will be able to pick up a necessary skill before they enter the cruel world," he said...
...storm was churning overhead. The fog would not lift tonight. I heard a noise in the brush by the stone staircase and there was Francois. His pants were wet to the knees and there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...