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...children's festival held in Harvard's Sanders Theater opened the day; 1000 schoolboys and girls from the Webster, Putnam, Thorndike, Allston, Shepard, Harvard and Washington schools crowded into the hall, where "they bent their eager gaze" upon a stage full of dignitaries...
...policies. "The issues will be ventilated," he claims. "It will be a good debate." He was looking beyond the current fuss over the TV debates, of course, and talking about the sort of struggle that is fun in the world of power. While a lot of Americans gaze with a certain despondency on the candidates, they continue to watch, mesmerized by the political drama...
...DAYS of this enervating campaign, it has become fashionable to gaze wistfully north and draw analogies to Canada. Former presidential candidates such as Sen. Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.) have called for a shortened campaign, referring to the recent Canadian elections. In the space of a few months, Baker noted, one government fell, a federal election was conducted, and a new government installed--while American hopefuls were focusing on the New Hampshire primary. Of course, the parallel breaks down; in Canada, the party leaders were firmly in place and had only to face each other, a mere nine months after...
...highly refined city-dwellers writing highly refined poetry about a subject they were generally ignorant of, the countryside. At their best, the pastoral poets created extremely allusive, elegant verse; at their worst, they produced tedious doggerel. It is on the latter that Belgrader and his company choose to gaze--as an anthology of bad pastoral included in the program forewarns...
...Puma helicopters and two Hercules C-130 transports, a combined force of 230 British marines and French paratroopers swooped down on the sleepy New Hebrides island of Espiritu Santo. They were armed and ready for combat. But the invading force was greeted with garlands of roses and the curious gaze of 1,000 of the island's anything-but-hostile inhabitants...