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...strictly defensive stance. Kennan left no doubt (see box) that he was unhappy about "this unpromising involvement in a remote and secondary theater," an attitude that evokes distant echoes of Neville Chamberlain's dismissal of Hitler's plans to rape Czechoslovakia as "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing...
...foulard and tie or side buckle shoes. Even less so when dressed for the street, another silk foulard peeping jauntily out of the breast pocket of his Chesterfield, his neck encased in a giant paisley muffler (silk!), and the unruly yellow thatch hidden behind a slouch hat imported from far-away France...
Senior Editor Michael Demarest looked up from the edited pages and, with a somewhat far-away look in his eye, recalled how as a boy he had helped feed the hogs on his father's farm in England, how he had milked cows during his wartime vacations from school ("I've never been able to stand milk since") and how, when he was a reporter on the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, he had helped out in his spare time in the vineyards and chicken houses on his mother's 50-acre ranch in the Napa Valley region...
...flown in from the Greek islands in chartered planes, were invited to receptions in the Tatoi Palace. Nearly 40,000 Athenians joined the royal couple one night for folk dances and music in Olympic Stadium. The honored guests-both titled and untitled-were mostly European, but some came from far-away lands...
...Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Nothin' much happened. Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those far-away old stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing we can do about it. It's pretty quiet now. Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk. Down behind the morgue a few of the young people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire...