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...danced a couple of steps as she walked out. It was becoming hard to hear, but Deloros meditated out loud for a moment on the Sunset's future: "You take the people's pleasures away from them and then you have violence. Nobody wants violence." She paused and her gaze roamed over the rows of liquor bottles behind the bar, coming to rest on fresh pictures of John and Robert Kennedy on either side of Martin Luther King. "No," she resumed, "nobody wants that...
...gubernatorial party primaries, but his demand was denied. The P.D.P. convention was rescheduled a month earlier to forestall popular debate, and the Governor's forces charged that the selection of delegates was rigged. Last week, in San Juan's Hiram Bithorn Stadium, party regulars, under the impassive gaze of Luis Muñoz, jeered Sánchez, then overwhelmingly nominated Luis Negrón Lopez, the senate majority leader, for the governorship...
...third and last phase of the service, each participant was told by McGaw to rise, gaze into the eyes of his fellow group members, and "reach out and touch them in any way-a handshake, a hand on a shoulder, even an embrace." After 30 seconds they were to tell each neighbor in the circle "what they honestly admire, respect and perhaps even love in him." McGaw described the touch-and-tell, which was interspersed with appropriate Bible readings, as "a different form of sermon...
...petitions, and to give them action. The Hungarian rebellion of 1956 was loaded with drama and tragic heroism. What has happened in Czechoslovakia has been more cautious, deliberate and evolutionary; it is an attempt at the marriage of Communism and democracy that is taking place under the disapproving parental gaze of the Kremlin. If the liberalization wrought by Alexander Dubček has lost some of its drama as it proceeds, perhaps that will be its greatest strength-and the best assurance that it has a chance, in the end, of success...
There they stand in the landscape, great, granite figures-some 13 feet tall and weighing up to 2½ tons. Their hollow gaze seems to follow the visitor; their enigmatic expressions change from minute to minute in the shifting sunlight. "When you look at one, you know it represents someone-someone to whom you could give a name," says Archaeologist Roger Grosjean, 47, the man responsible for bringing the monuments to light. Corsica's sculptured menhirs (from Breton men-stone, and hir-long) are among the oldest monumental statues in Europe. Says Grosjean: "For the origin of sculpture, these...