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Part of the problem was Clemente's poor start. He opened 1-of-5 from the floor and got into early foul trouble. He ended the first half with seven points and three fouls, playing just 14 minutes...
Granted that most of us don't have such options to begin with, there's still a universal theme in Wyatt's choice: the yearning for home in a helter-skelter era. This has been a millennium spent on the road. Colonizations and immigrations. Expeditions to the ocean floor, the earth's roof, the poles and the moon. Forced diasporas for populations in Africa, North America, Europe and elsewhere. Journeys across oceans for wars and police actions, and trips home in body bags. Forays around southern capes in tall ships and across Eurasia in caravans. And just as this millennium...
During the last decade of his life, Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) began a systematic survey of the Massachusetts vegetation surrounding Concord, where he lived in the third-floor attic of his parents' house. His mission, as he told his journal, was "to find God in nature," the Transcendental imperative he absorbed from his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, the 26 months Thoreau had spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations...
During a stoppage in the first half, Clemente persuaded the officials to let him wipe down a slick spot on the Hart Center floor with a towel thrown from the Harvard bench...
...Crimson may also want to work on shot selection. Although shooting a respectable 26-for-59 (44.1 percent) from the floor, the team often took bad-looking three-pointers and looked rusty in the post...