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...sure was a three-day blow, replete with huffing and puffing and plenty of buffeting, lots of hot air and even some gloom and doom. There was nowhere to hide from its primal force; nothing to do but gawk, and murmur in hushed tones, and wait for it all to be over...
Reportedly, it was Kennedy Schlossberg who made sure that Friday's memorial service was small and private, at an upper Manhattan church that their mother attended, instead of in a large cathedral where the world could freely gawk. And one saw her fingerprints on the decision to cremate John and his two fellow passengers and spread their ashes to the waves in a U.S. Navy "commitment at sea." (As son of the captain of PT 109 ?- and the commander-in-chief ?- John was certainly entitled; the courtesy was extended to include his wife and her sister.) To the accompaniment...
...there, Jackie spoke to a big crowd of black folks over on Davis Avenue. I think he talked about segregation, but I didn't hear a word that came out of his mouth. Jackie Robinson was such a hero to me that I couldn't do anything but gawk...
...hens cooped north of my barn, students raised in safe, nurturing environments expect little danger from outside let alone within, and when trouble erupts--the automatic feeder capsizes or a gunfight develops outside Holyoke Center--behavior becomes chaotic. Hens explode from hen house, students run in circles or gawk at shooters (although one dropped into the gutter, remembering a VES 107 digression on curbstone height versus body shape). Raptors find too many easy marks, too many undergraduates who never sense who follow them, who stalk them down to the laundry room; raptors who know how little undergraduates suspect their fellow...
...hens cooped north of my barn, students raised in safe, nurturing environments expect little danger from outside let alone within, and when trouble erupts--the automatic feeder capsizes or a gunfight develops outside Holyoke Center--behavior becomes chaotic. Hens explode from hen house, students run in circles or gawk at shooters (although one dropped into the gutter, remembering a VES 107 digression on curbstone height versus body shape). Raptors find too many easy marks, too many undergraduates who never sense who follow them, who stalk them down to the laundry room; raptors who know how little undergraduates suspect their fellow...