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From the top of the dike the plain looked endless, colorless, with a few bare trees, a row of crooked telegraph poles, and half a dozen or so huts marking the view of the terrain but failing to interrupt its flatness and lack of color. The sound of a shepherd's reed in the distance made his small flock of sheep and goats visible. The goats separated themselves from the sheep seemingly by following the sound of their own bells. But there wasn't even a small patch of green, and what the animals fed on couldn't be anything...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Boyish Heroics | 5/4/1984 | See Source »

...formal fantasy." Haviaras says, adding. "I don't know if it will recapitulate your average American male fantasy, but the idea surrounding her has promoted a tremendous flow of creative energy and I don't want to interrupt or try to understand it." Haviaras says he thinks it will be very good, and he may attempt to publish it someday...

Author: By Art Z. Schwaartz, | Title: It's A Wonderful Life | 5/4/1984 | See Source »

...campaign workers in Washington two nights later, Mondale asserted, "I've come back into the race because people asked the one question that counts most . . ." The question he intended to, and finally did, pose was "Who will be the best President?" But to voice it, he had to interrupt a spontaneous chant from the crowd of "Where's the beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The race between Hart and Mondale heads toward more showdowns | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...group of protestors led by Saundra Graham, now a Cambridge City Councilor and state representative, seized the stage to interrupt the first joint Harvard-Radcliffe Commencement and voice discontent over Harvard's housing policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speeches Draw International Recognition | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...American. This seems increasingly to be true, if only because their anti-nuclear efforts must necessarily be directed primarily against the United States Again, however, this should not be a reason for turning a blind eye to ward Soviet intransigence. While the Soviets have taken it upon themselves to interrupt arms negotiations and Soviet development in Eastern Europe continues undaunted by concerns over needless escalation it is the Americans who have borne the brunt of the Greens antinuclear agitation. Specifically, their attempt to set up a working coalition with the Social Democrats in Hesse has been hindered by demands such...

Author: By Gregor F.L. Gruber, | Title: Moving on Thin Ice | 2/16/1984 | See Source »

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