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Pifer puts it this way: "When morning comes with the soldiery abed and tangled in a heap, the bathtub gin drained, leaving only a rosy residue of secretaries in half-slips, when the muddy colonel in the geranium bush is dragged indoors by dawn's first Negro to sleep it off in the vestibule under a smashed grandfather clock, when first brightness crashes through ripped drapes into the dehydrated eyes of snockered politicos, lobbyists in underpants, Pentagon sources and the secret police, when the hands that guide our collective destiny reach to kill the screams of the alarm clock...
...college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us, have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's world of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left to our creativity to find our own direction...
...college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us, have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's worth of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left to our creativity to find our own direction...
...Italian way of life," Luigi Barzini argued in The Italians, "makes laws and institutions function defectively. The unsolved problems pile up and inevitably produce catastrophes at regular intervals." Last week, with a mountainous heap of unsolved problems plaguing the nation, Italy's national government was running one step ahead of catastrophe. After seven unsettling weeks of government by caretaker, Christian Democrat Mariano Rumor finally put together a coalition Cabinet that was acceptable to the same grouping of center and left-wing parties that has ruled Italy, after a fashion, for the past seven years. It was the third government...
...told him again about finding Girl. Just a puppy dying of starvation and beating on a garbage heap out back of San Jose. How Merilee took her up into her arms though so bad she smelled and so near death she was, and how Merilee whispered to her "we are in this together old Girl" and carried her home and started in to nursing herself and the pup back to health and life...