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...their children, members of a supposedly radical generation, who genuinely hunger for unexperienced past, as if they were hearing some melancholy autumnal horn summoning them through an undiscovered hallway to a place they can search for but can never find. It is as if they felt cheated for being given their maturity in the sad and sinister world of the '70s. For them, as for Wordsworth, there truly "hath passed away a glory from the earth...
...bumper-bald Gordon Sherman, 43, was in the office round the clock some days-and other days scarcely at all. A man of intense energy and occasional brilliance, he often worked at home, where he also liked to tend his orchids and hummingbirds or tootle his oboe and English horn. Occasionally he held executive meetings at a zoo, or in the office by candlelight. "A certain truth comes out at night that doesn't come out in the board room," he explained...
...Home." was the dazed response. The bus driver beeped the horn and the sun was gone...
...Having no practice definitely hurt us this week," coach Mike Horn said yesterday. "We were able to sail fast enough. but we weren't reacting instinctively to tactical problems as we normally would have. Also there were a few boat handling errors," he added...
...first half of his book traces the passing. It includes a chilling reconstruction of Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn and the apparently retaliatory slaughter of starving Indians at Wounded Knee 14 years later. At ten, in 1880, Red Fox was sent to the Carlisle Indian School where he began moving into the white world. Thereafter he went to sea briefly ("It was like viewing eternity in motion"), and at 23 joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. On opening night in London in 1905, part of his act was to chase a careering stagecoach...