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...biological center for the exercise of courage, a piece of tissue that might be touched and sparked and made to respond, a chemical maybe or a lone chromosome that when made to fire would produce chain reactions of valor that even the biles could not drown. A filament, a fuse, that if ignited would release the full energy of what might be. There was a Silver star twinkling somewhere inside...
...first eight minutes of the third period the two teams played a wide open, offensive brand of hockey. The Crimson continued to frustrate Cornell with its tight checking. Then Cornell junior John Stornik lit the Big Red fuse...
Fantastic figures fornicate and fuse...
...those who customarily clean up afterward will do so. The reports will be duly written and filed. Those who were already in a bad way will be worse off." Those who had little sympathy for them will probably have less. We have not yet found the lightning that will fuse enough of us into a force that can use the ordinary political, economic, social and moral instruments at our disposal to make changes of the scale, depth and duration required before the lights go out again...
...dressing rooms, borrowed clothes from members of the audience and went home in cabs. Waiters at Manhattan restaurants served patrons by candlelight. Buses were delayed only slightly by darkened traffic lights. Garbage trucks whined as usual on their nightly rounds. Mayor Abraham Beame, assuming, like many citizens, that a fuse had blown, ad-libbed a quip during a campaign speech at the Co-op City Traditional Synagogue in The Bronx. "See," he said. "This is what you get for not paying your bills...