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Thirty yards behind McInally, the field was full of people, but none seemed to notice him. They were watching Radcliffe field hockey, or next to it, Harvard rugby. Occasionally a huge cheer would go up. The Harvard and Dartmouth bands were on faraway fields practicing their halftime shows, and McInally could hear the music as he kicked. It was only a couple of hours before game time. Tailgaters with picnic spreads were arriving, and McInally knew that inside Dillon Field House, the football team would soon be showering and dressing, getting tape applied, getting ready...
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine...
...learn not to trust the Globe at all. Next to "Los Angles" in the baseball standings, the Globe will often print at the institution of the bus it says: "Not including late game." Meaning the Globe couldn't wait until the Dodger score rolled in from L.A., a faraway place in a different time zone...
...smog, accepting that while the founding fathers had guaranteed them the right to assemble, that did not assure them a parking space. The pace of Government seemed slower, more relaxed. The Senate recessed. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was out of town, not coping with trouble in some faraway cockpit but continuing his travels in the U.S. heartland to build up public support for himself and the Ford Administration's foreign policy. In Atlanta, Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism society, made him an honorary member and presented him with an old-fashioned editor's green eyeshade. The President...
Ironically, today, when Czech intellectuals continue to see no way to insure national survival other than by making a significant contribution to world culture, most people at Harvard are ignorant of, or indifferent to the efforts of these people in "this faraway country of which we know nothing...