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...peculiar but harmless figure on big-city streets, the lone man walking down a sidewalk, railing loudly at some injustice inflicted by a distant, impersonal tormentor. The angry man who actually acts out his rage usually appears only in films-the demented TV newscaster in Network, for example, who declares war on what he sees as the Establishment and touches a sympathetic nerve in millions of viewers by urging them to shout, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!" But sometimes he appears in real life...
...prisoner has in no way aroused the wrath of the camp authorities, once a year he has the right to receive a visit from his family members. You can easily imagine how eagerly his wife or mother waits for that encounter. But the trip to the distant camps is lengthy and costly. And what about the children? Somebody has to take care of them while their mother is away, and she is lucky if she still has some true friends left to do her the favor: the KGB does its best to frighten them away. Of course, she can take...
Every crisis produces its heroes. In Fayette County, Pa., County Commissioner Fred Lebder has become a one-man fuel expediter for the needy. Working out of an old school building, he has established a hot line to distant families who are isolated on impassable rural roads or on unreachable hilltops. He scrounges oil and kerosene from places as distant as Kansas City, then commandeers county vehicles and tank trucks to carry the fuel to destitute homes. Occasionally, he pays for the fuel by personal check...
...Distant Thunder...
Like many South American artists and writers, Neruda followed a course throughout his life that included diplomatic duty--first in Ceylon, Burma and other parts of then-very distant Asia, and then in Spain during the days of the Republic. It was in that latter time that he encountered the people--the young, political poets of Spain--and the passions of the Spanish Civil War. Both were poetic milestones that marked a profound change in his writing...