Word: knapsack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steve Oney is not a college student. His tweed jacket, Knapsack, pullover sweater and predilection for Bartley burgers (he prefers the "Ronnie Reagan burger," two jellybeans included) may make him look like one; he does attend some half-dozen classes and will continue to do so for the rest of the year. But Steve Oney is a 1981-82 Nieman fellow, a self-styled "new journalist," and his mission at Harvard this year is not to pave the way toward professional school but to take courses "that I don't know anything about." There's one other thing: he wants...
...young ex-serviceman at the door of Edward Eliçofon's Brooklyn home had a knapsack full of paintings for sale. They had been bought at a flea market in Germany, the young man said. Eliçofon, a lawyer and passionate collector, was intrigued. He did not know, on that afternoon in 1946, that what the man offered was a collector's dream-and ultimately, a $10 million disappointment...
...like a sleepwalker. In the beginning, he substitutes the Cause for God: "In that way I could accept everything without reservation or hesitation. . . the Party held the truth and the keys to the future." When he marches with militant workers, he suddenly feels the weight of phylacteries in his knapsack, but his revolutionary fervor is seldom leavened by thought. It takes a phosphorescent, spectral figure to rekindle any moral sense. David Aboulesia, who mysteriously appears whenever pain grows too intense to bear, warns him, "If you believe you must forsake your brothers in order to save mankind, you will save...
...intelligence officer, Mowat is particularly vulnerable when he delivers messages and undertakes reconnaissances. In addition, he must frequently accompany a commanding officer who enjoys walking upright in the steel rain. Mowat is lucky: a burst aimed at his back is deflected by a knapsack full of canned bully beef; shells land where he has just been or where he has been delayed in going; a searing fragment cuts his boot in half but leaves him barely scratched...