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...benefit more than they can benefit from us," says James H. Fowler '92, chief of staff for HMCE. "They accuse us of being conservative," Fowler says, adding "Soviet students say maybe the U.S. could use more perestroika...
...Fowler says that many Europeans believe that because there are only two parties in the American political system, a wide diversity of opinion is not represented in government...
Author Darryl Brock starts off with an oboe passage. His hero, Sam Fowler, a San Francisco newspaperman in his early 30s, is gloomy from a bad divorce and muzzy from a slight drinking problem. He has flown to Cleveland to bury his father, who died there alone, and has decided to meander back home on an Amtrak train. Somewhere in northern Ohio, the train rolls to an unscheduled stop on a siding, and Fowler steps off into the summer heat to clear his head. When he turns, the 20th century Amtrak diesel has vanished, and a woodburning steam train -- what...
...Fowler is dazed and perhaps injured (he has cut his head somehow), and his accent is funny. When he pulls out a couple of Federal Reserve notes to pay for his ticket, his money looks dodgy. Is such stuff legal tender in San Francisco? Doubtful. But the friendly "base ballists," as they call themselves, accept him without a lot of awkward questions and give him a berth to sleep in. When he wakes up, he stays on the train, not knowing what else to do. He learns that they are headed for New York, where the Red Stockings plan...
...contract, and who campaigned to both the East and West coasts that year.) The reader does not really ask these questions, because the narrative moves with such cheerful confidence that doubt does not arise. But a couple of advantages work powerfully in favor of the author's device. Fowler, having a thin time of it in the 20th century, is plunked into a situation in which his only problems are day-to-day adventures. His lifting of mood coincides with that of the reader, whose cynicism about sports drops away as these 19th century men delightedly play their boys' game...