Word: knute
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...house he finds a mirror "with the silver mostly gone, as if all its reflections had worn it through." He hikes to the spot near Bazaar where, in 1931, the Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men died in a plane crash, after which local people carried pieces off for keepsakes. A woman tells him about running a health-food restaurant in a little burg called Cottonwood Falls: "We never did get the farmers to eat alfalfa sprouts. They know silage when they...
...conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has been trucked in for the occasion. The Four Horsemen start to applaud between movements of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune and are embarrassed. Stuhldreher frowns, then whispers something to Crowley. From two rows back, Fielding Yost shushes him. Nearby, Knute Rockne is worried he will not have enough money to pay his hotel bill. New Orleans seems a lot fancier than South Bend...