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...settles down and scores. Pleasant Valley's head coach, Tony Caracio, paces the sideline, trailing assistant coaches in his wake as he wigwags signals to his defensive unit. Pleasant Valley fans sit in miserable silence. At times the only sound is the popping of shoulder pads and the grunt of linemen...
Butch Hobson contributed to the onpour with two doubles and a single. Scott, Burleson, Remy and Fisk combined their singles for two runs. And it all came down with a grunt in the eighth, when Fisk walked, Yaz singled, and Lynn tripled off the left field wall for two runs. Hobson's long single off the center field wall in that inning brought in two more. All told, the Sox banged out 16 hits...
...solitary pedestrian women or even journalists. The reasons are not hard to find. Moving targets offer little appeal to vandals. People who appear to be carrying nothing more negotiable than vigorous health are hardly patsies for muggers. No matter what their charm in repose, few runners going at full grunt offer a vision apt to incite any but the most dedicated molester. Finally, running has yet to produce an idea worth the kind of attack that citizens regularly launch against politicians, economists or entertainers...
...conversation, less eager to laud Harvard for its kindness and generosity. "At Eliot and Kirkland House, it's different than it is here," he says. "Over there they treat you like nothing. The kids come in and they don't even speak. They ignore you. They just point or grunt to let you know what they want," he says. The other workers seem disconcerted by this statement. "Well, it's true at some of these other Houses, students make you feel like...well, like you're working for them," Pat says. But before anyone else can respond to John...
...house. I would fumble for some simple form of greeting but invariably the person spoken to would look surprised and come to a complete halt, expecting me to engage him in conversation. Finally I had a great anthropological insight. On occasions like this one does not speak. A low grunt of acknowledgement is permissable for those compelled to formality. So deep was my prior cultural conditioning that I never quite got over the strain of keeping silent. The next visitor to my village will no doubt be surprised to be greeted by a hoard of little boys yelling "Ullo." Acculturation...