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Wichita has known more than its historic share of booms. Back in the 1870s the town was a major overnight hitching post for cowhands who were taking their Texas longhorns north over the dusty Chisholm Trail. Signs posted outside the self-proclaimed "cow capital" declared: "Anything goes in Wichita. Leave your revolvers at police headquarters." Thirsty cowpunchers, ranchers, Indian scouts and gamblers filled the barrooms and dance halls, earning Wichita a reputation as "the noisiest town on the American continent...
...city is slightly swollen with pride and somewhat torn between shouting to the world that it is not a hick cow town any more and keeping all the hordes east of the Mississippi out of their beautiful country. When asked what they like about their city, most Wichitans cite intangibles such as the sense of community and quality of life. Grover McKee, the budget director who engineered the industrial-development program, came back to Wichita after ten years on Wall Street. "When I was in New York I was spending $200 a month commuting two hours each...
...feigned indifference to life is a sham. He inwardly craves all the things to which he has tried to close his heart: love and loyalty, and a purpose that will root him to the land his forebears lost. Near the book's end, he tries to rescue a cow that is in danger of drowning in mud. The task is mock-heroic, emblematic of the best he can expect from existence. But he struggles furiously, engaged in the grubbiness of life through an inertia of commitment that is stronger than protective cynicism...
James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, told the graduate students last Friday that "the faculty's right to self-perpetuation is a sacred cow" that it "is just not in the cards to change." One student replied that "it is just this sacred cow that we must slay if we are going to change this department...
...supposedly unbeautiful things, but also his way of making the poem, as it goes along, a physical experience of discovery for the reader." It's hard to imagine a sixth grader intentionally attempting to evoke such a sophisticated response. It's like equating a crayon drawing of a cow with wings floating under a purple sun with a Chagall. In fact it's difficult to accept the premise that kids understand poetry much better than a definition shouted out at the beginning of my class: "words written down." Of course adults don't understand poetry very well either, and that...