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...ended the article with the hope??that "the struggles still to come are fewer than those left behind." I believe that the vast majority of people realistically fear that mankind has a tremendous amount of killing and savagery ahead of us before we truly civilize ourselves. But let's hope you are correct...
That California has come to embody such a vision of boundlessness is a little strange, since the dream of California is as much the dream of disappointment as of hope???the dream of arriving at virgin territory, of messing it up, and having gone as far as one can go, of having nowhere to turn but back. As Kevin Starr pointed out in his Americans and the California Dream, California has always stood for something mystical in American life; it has not suffered the tragic historical burdens of the East and South, and it has seemed determined to make itself...
...Inside, expensive audiovisual equipment sits in unlocked offices, while near by, students pursue a discussion of a Chekhov story and Richard Wright's Native Son. It is Providence-St. Mel High School, the West Side's remaining Roman Catholic secondary school and a fortress of civility ?and hope???for black teenagers...
...sponsors conceived it as a nonpartisan happening, a patriotic family outing on a Disney scale. As an earnest of their neutral intentions, they enlisted Senator George McGovern and some other heroes of the war-protest movement. But the rally will be dominated by Evangelist Billy Graham, Comedian Bob Hope???both close friends of President Nixon's?and a 1967 Miss Teen-Age America finalist who will recite "I Speak for Democracy." To many, it appears to be aimed at implicit support for the policies of the Nixon Administration...
...beaches of Sicily, pushed up through Southern Italy, then finally prepared to attack Hitler's Festung Europa itself. Target: Normandy. D-day was set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather over the English Channel, the worst in years, forced postponement. There was only a tiny gleam of hope???better weather forecast for the 6th?and Eisenhower made the most momentous decision of his career...