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...taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife to the banks of the Pecos where God intended neither species to live, having defied humanity by his whole mean, solitary life, he finds himself stumbling on to an end that his rheumy eyes can hardly make out, with some of the defiant dignity...
...grille. "I disobeyed my parents"; "1 told a lie"; "I said a bad word." The ritual was required. Without it one would not be permitted to reach the bright day of his first Holy Communion. Later, if one went on in parochial school, it became a schoolday habit: the herd march into the pews for an afternoon of fidgeting or perhaps nervously inventing sins, waiting for one's turn in the dark confessional and the familiar-if not quite inevitable-"three Our Fathers; three Hail Marys." Sometimes the occasion happened to coincide with real sorrow, and even when...
...Elsewhere, the Tutsis and Hutus seem to be living together without trouble-at least for the moment-sharing the same hills and villages. But calm will prevail only as long as there is no effort to change the ages-old system of ubuhake (literally meaning servitude), under which the herd-keeping Tutsis lease their cattle to Hutu farmers for food and pledges of vassalage...
...These rich are very star-struck," observed a technician, trying to ride herd on a crowd that included Mrs. James Van Alen, Mrs. Claiborne Pell, Mrs. T.J. Oakley Rhinelander and Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Buchana.n...
...political democracy in order to keep Vietnam free, the American government began to undermine American democracy for the good of the republic. Demonstrators were no longer exercising their Constitutional rights; they were "bums;" it was all right to club them in Chicago, or shoot in Ohio, or herd into jail in Washington. Newspapers were no longer the safeguard of democracy, the cornerstone of a republican state. Or rather, they were now more than ever the safeguard of democracy--which was no longer acceptable to democracy's defenders. Nixon so feared people's knowing the truth about what was happening...