Word: doves
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...interest,” Runyon says. “He was always looking for the truth in a situation and trying to influence the most ethical outcome.”He applied his strict sense of ethics to himself. When he had to pay a fine for shooting a dove above a baited field, he insisted that it be written up in his newspaper—though the incident was so minor it would not have normally merited ink.“He felt it should be there. He violated the law,” Post remembers.BREAKING UPBut Bingham?...
During crowd favorite “Penelope,” a fan climbed onto the stage, yelled something inaudible, and then dove into the crowd. Beyond simple propriety, this was inappropriate because the performance wasn’t the sort of thing that inspires aggressive behavior in any normal person. Nodding, smiling, swaying, but not stage diving. It’s a good thing they weren’t here—the Haircuts would not have approved...
...stronger than it had ever been, but even its great strength was not enough. The U.S., like the rest of the world, was tired of the incubus of permanent crisis, tired of high taxes, tired of a war that was never done and never won, tired of the peace dove that was only a clanking phony made in Moscow. For all its might & main, the U.S. could find no quick...
...fictional Jonah Dove may be a more intriguing story. Directly descended from the Dove family that appears in the second book of the trilogy, “Paradise Alley,” the minister is a troubled legacy that creates an artful cohesion within the series...
...jarring interaction with the young Malcolm in the beginning of “Strivers Row,” sends Dove on an existential crisis; he revives his old and emotionally complex practice of “passing” as white in prestigious institutions throughout New York City. Meanwhile, Dove loses the support of his congregation and even his usually sympathetic wife...