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...dawn of a revolution reveals the total history of a community...
Symphony Sid, was a disc jockey for a small dawn-to-dusk radio station in Roxbury or some such place. Its signal was so weal that even in ?Cambridge it cam in as quavering and erratic as a BBC message from Winston Churchill to the French Resistance. But I strained for the sound because for fifteen minutes every day just before signoff time, Symphony Sid broadcast a kind of music I had never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan...
...recall a midnight, dead-of-winter trip to Plum Island with a few friends. We put on most of the clothes we owned, folded down the top of his MG-TD (then a new car, not an antique) and had a glorious time ripping along the joy road till dawn. We drove with such panache I never guessed he was no drunk that the next day he could not remember the trip...
...that is put into the ground," marveled a Swiss visitor in 1701). They worked and studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence that became the young nation's defining trait. Lawyer George Wythe, whose house on the green is a visual joy, started a student in Greek at dawn and by evening had taken him through Latin, mathematics, French and English literature. Young Jefferson studied 15 hours out of every 24. "Determine never to be idle," he told his daughter. "It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." No better epigraph could be found...
...dawn of human history, and Homo sapiens steps out from his cave to watch the rising sun paint the horizon. Suddenly he hears a rustling in the forest. His muscles tense, his heart pounds, his breath comes rapidly as he locks eyes with a saber-toothed tiger. Should he fight or run for his life? He reaches down, picks up a sharp rock and hurls it. The animal snarls but disappears into the trees. The man feels his body go limp, his breathing ease. He returns to his darkened den to rest...