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...extraordinary eruption of political expression that had gripped Peking for the past two weeks. In an atmosphere reminiscent of London's lively Hyde Park Speakers' Corner, the voices of young orators demanding "true freedom, true democracy and true human rights" echoed through the early winter dusk. Thousands filed past "democracy wall" at the intersection of Chang An Avenue and Hsi Tan Street to inspect wall posters castigating some members of the ruling Politburo, policies decreed by the sainted Great Helmsman, the late Mao, and by implication, China's Chairman and Premier, Hua Kuo-feng...
...eleven played its finest game of the year, standing up to the mighty Bruins as they had to the oversized UMass Minutemen four weeks earlier. Again, the offense took charge late in the game (the injury-torn defense had once again failed), only to see victory slip away as dusk descended on Soldiers Field. 31-30, the final tally read, as Gary Bosnic's 30-yd. field goal attempt in the fading light sailed just wide (Weird Incident Number Three...
...dusk descended on Harvard Stadium, white and Crimson jerseys converged in a mass, at the center of the field--embracing, shaking hands, walking off slowly. But most of all, satisfied they had played in one of the most exciting Harvard-Yale games in recent years...
...plane, with a minimum of immigration fuzzbuzz, the F.F. sees the world's most intensively cultivated fields, wheat and rice and sorghum and countless vegetables, pressing to the edge of every road, rail and airport runway. He sees the back streets of cities, busy from dawn to dusk, where every human activity save copulation is conducted alfresco. Then occurs the gee whiz Instamatic Blur. The people smiling and waving and clapping from city sidewalks and country lanes. The painfully hand-inscribed WARMLY WELCOMING boards. The impression, away from every preprogrammed and official event, that this is an extraordinarily relaxed...
...parents' lives were unimaginably cruel. Plowing by hand, laboring in the fields from dawn until dusk, his father died of a heart attack in his early 30s. when Crews was not quite two. Not long afterward, his mother married his father's older brother Pascal. The result was catastrophic. Pascal drank, the couple quarreled, and after he discharged his shotgun six inches above his wife's head, she fled with her children to Jacksonville. A few months later, she returned to work the farm herself...