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...million house is not a home-and it no longer symbolizes California. As just about everybody knows by now Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, refuses to inspect, much less inhabit the abode, conspicuously preferring to bunk downtown in a modest $275-a-month apartment. Today this monument to the California dream stands cold and mute, an incongruous reminder of an era that no longer exists...
...playing fields and recreational periods that stretch from the end of the workday in midafternoon until prisoners choose to go to bed. Haldeman is living in a cubicle in a 30-man dormitory. Mitchell has one cellmate and, because he is over 40, is sure of getting a bottom bunk...
...some ways," said Nixon. "I didn't feel... 'Well, resignation is so terrible that I better go out and fall on a sword' ... I never think in those terms -suicidal terms, death wish and all that. That's all just bunk. But, on the other hand, I feel myself that life without purpose ... that life in which an individual has to ... is forced to go against his intuitions about what he thinks he ought to do, that life then becomes almost unbearable. And so resignation meant life without purpose...
Three weeks later, it didn't really matter if there was a bunk bed or not. Beth's roommate had moved in with Jeff. But it was only October so Beth wasn't too worried. A lot of her friends hadn't met any glamorous upper classmen yet either. She would give it a few more weeks...
...sums up should seem ill at ease. By background, he is a child of the streets. But deep down he possesses a far broader understanding of the world and bigger dreams than the others. (He is the only inmate in the cell with a stack of newspapers under his bunk...