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...shakes her head. "I'm sorry we don't have a 'none of the above' category on the ballot. It's a shame that such a big country as ours has nothing better to offer." She shakes her head. "We're crying for leadership. We're like a bunch of children. We're ripe for someone like Hitler--and that really scares...
...realize that the military replaces marriage as the oppressive force in Judy's life. She swears to honor and obey the Army just as she made those same vows to her two husbands. Instead of mistreatment from someone she loves, Judy receives abuse--physical and mental--from a bunch of strangers in green uniforms. She's shoved, almost head-first, out of a bus; she's pummeled by a soldier who steals her blanket; she's savagely tossed out of bed; she's forced to clean toilets with her toothbrush. When her condescending, over-protective parents arrive to rescue...
Poetry East (paperback,$3) is a new periodical, edited by Richard Jones and Kate Daniels. This debut edition offers an eclectic, mostly finely-wrought bunch of verse, including a section of Swedish poems, from the imagist miniatures of Harry Martinson to the brusque commonplaces of Sonja Akkeson ("There is an interest in Swedish poetry here in America which is quite remarkable," says editor Jones, perhaps somewhat hopefully); a healthy chunk of presumably new American work (including a moving tribute to Cesare Pavese by David Wojahn and a backhanded one to the Irish poet Patrick Kavanaugh by the redoubtable Louis Simpson...
...Cuccia gathered in an exceptional 45-yd. pass from Buchanan, making a picturesque diving catch...Defensive end Dave Otto applied pressure on Cornell's quarterbacks all day long. Together with Chuck Durst, Otto makes the left side of the line a wall...Restic used tight end Marshall on a bunch of patterns, perhaps foreshadowing a change in his primarily blocking role...Buchanan had 199 yds. in total offense...Little-used Steve Vago responded to his starting opportunity by collecting 90 yds. on the ground for Cornell. at Cambridge Cornell 7 0 3 2--12 Harvard...
...piece de resistance came on the last day of the program. Some of the children, upset because the counselors had slapped them while trying to break up fights, complained to their older brothers. When those brothers--members of the Wild Bunch--showed up and threatened to defend their siblings by beating up the student "intruders," the volunteers blanched. But after some pushing and showing, things calmed down...