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Emily, Raymond and Donny I wind up in New York, all seeking freedom from the constraints of the " South and all baffled by the impersonality and rootlessness of the big city. They are easy touches for any groups that offer them companionship and forgiveness for the site of their births: "One of the South's inadequacies, Emily had decided, was to instill in its children the ability to listen politely while people dumped on their homeland." Donny eventually falls in with a black power cadre in Harlem. Raymond and Emily join a group of civil rights activists who dress...
...city's choicest mountain suburb: a place of steep, piney cul-de-sacs and well-to-do placidity. On some of his periodic sabbaticals from Texas Tech, John Jr. alighted at the new family home, and while there he often loitered at the local high school, presumably seeking companionship...
Some go for the companionship of the trail--the shared water bottles, the rising and falling of feet in tandem, the magic of a solitary campfire on a dark and starry night. Some go for the splendor of the territory--the congregation of peaks in robes of snow and light, the intense blue sky and deep blue lakes, the high-piled clouds trailing their shadows across the mountains. Still others go for the adventure--the challenge of the unknown, the icy slopes, the dangerous climbs...
There the headline is, back in the classified section of the Atlantic Monthly, along with those two-line ads for items like "Cookie Beef Stew" and pleas for companionship from "caring" bachelors who love long walks and Mantovani. Under the headline is a fat, two-column come-on from the Bear Creek Corp. In Medford, Ore. In the country round Medford, it declares, "trees outnumber people." The place is "15 minutes from Ashland (home of the summer Shakespearean Festival) in the valley of the Rogue River, beloved by demented steelhead and salmon anglers. Excellent skiing, hiking, boating and swimming...
...traditional sense of isolation and natural mistrust of outsiders. Although he gorged on statistics and toasts to peace and friendship, Schell felt as if he were part of an experiment in "barbarian management." There were no casual chats, no exchanges of mailing addresses and certainly no offers of female companionship. "In the back streets of China's less cosmopolitan cities," he recalls, "I would sometimes see mothers protectively grab their children as I passed...