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...soil. Now President of his country, Jomo gave the Queen his nation's highest award-the Order of the Golden Heart. Elizabeth responded by investing her host with the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and-for an old warrior turned rose fancier-a silver flower bowl...
...toughest guy at P.S. 106 back in New York," he likes to boast. "I was expelled from a private school for throwing some kid out a window. He wasn't really hurt. It was only a 1½story fall, and he landed in a flower garden...
...skill at getting the natural poetry of America's downtrodden to express itself more than it exhibits his own considerable writing talents. By talking to people as people instead of as sterile percentages, Coles paints faces on the nation's oppressed and allows the full dimension of reality to flower. He is always saying yes-but; yes, the mountaineer is racist but he always qualifies his racism; yes, the ghetto youth takes heroin but he worries about his mother who is old before her time; yes, the ghetto teacher is irritated and irritating, but she also cares deeply...
...royal launch as it left the royal yacht and swooshed up to Bangkok's royal pier, where the English royals were greeted by the Thai royals, King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Then there was a ride in the royal Daimler through cheering throngs, a walk over a flower-strewn path and a presentation of the key to the city...
Rabbit himself has transferred his faith from freedom to middle-class American virtues. His is still with Janice and Nelson. Though he hasn't had sexual relations with his wife since Run, and though he finds his long-haired kid (and his flower-child tendencies) frightening, Rabbit is doing what was expected of him; and doing it with devotion which surpasses understanding because it is so unexamined...