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...permanent alliance of workers and student movements has proved in the past, at least at Harvard, to exist only as a gleam in the eyes seen behind student organizers' bullhorns. But for now, leftist student groups and the 32 lithographers and bookbinders striking the Harvard Printing Office have formed a marriage of convenience around specific issues, if not a true alliance...
Mississippi Attorney General A.F. Summer complained that "this certainly creates an anomaly. The time for payments has been moved backward from birth to conception. I hope they decide to stop there. If we have to begin with the gleam in the eye, who will do the counting and the certifying?" Summer is appealing the decision, as are the losers in all the other cases...
...Federal government soon regretted that treaty. Four years later, a white man discovered gold in the Black Hills, and a flood of white men descended onto Indian land, armed with a gleam in their eyes and a total disregard for the 1868 treaty...
...commentators rallied to her support. One thought the decision "outlandish," and another asserted indignantly, "Some Japanese women in their 60s are far better than men of their age in physiological performance. We cannot accept such a ruling." But, in a country where the liberation movement is still just a gleam in women's eyes, there was little else they could...
...some of us: "She's an American classic just as he is: common clay that we prize above classic marble. The difference between them is that he knew it and she didn't." To adapt a phrase from Thomas Nash, brightness fell from the air. Its particular gleam has never been recaptured-except perhaps in this book. · A.T. Baker