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...begin to strike, commencing with a deep boom and running up to a high treble till the air is filled with the clashing of iron tongues... Little groups of students coming from the side streets hasten across the yard, bound for Memorial Hall, and in spite of the general din, fragments of their gay talk come clearly to the passers...
...working-class children born there a century ago died before the age of five. Under Manchester's pall of smoke, pale families shuffled away their lives between cotton mill and hovel. Bad air, bad food, bad laws, monotony and danger were the workers' common lot. The din of machinery was a ceaseless taunt that whatever skill remained in their hands was irrelevant...
...light cast onto the fog. The men already there order another Pernod and wait. Their wives will not close the shutters or put out dinner until the fog breaks. The priest in the chapel rings the angelus against the swing of the tide, a tinny sound amid the din. He waits for the fog to lift so the people in the town, carrying their flashlights through the streets, can come to evening mass...
...also finds space for an elderly immigrant's recollection of Ellis Island: "Din, confusion, bewilderment, madness!" There is a memorable sting to his words about the Supreme Court. The Justices, he writes, "have proclaimed the right to keep blacks and whites apart on trains and then, decades later, proclaimed the right of blacks to sit with whites on trains ... They had interpreted the letter of the Constitution to say ... that the individual's rights are imperiled when an oil company gobbles up its competitors...
...this meeting is disrupted--hateful as some of us may find it--then liberty will have died a little and those guilty of disruption will have done irreparable damage to the cause of humanity and peace," he told a crowd that could not hear him over the din...