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...were held, a group of militant nationalists, calling themselves the Brunei People's Party, swept 97% of all seats, only to be prevented from taking office. When, four months later, the leftists mounted an armed rebellion, thousands of them were thrown, often without trial, into jail. Some still linger there...
...explain what television did to them. Mr. and Mrs. Loud, now 62 and 56, had naively imagined that the initial documentary would reveal them as hipper versions of Ozzie and Harriet. "I, to this day, am embarrassed," she confesses. Other wounded and still wondering voices of the Louds linger in the memory. Bill, bristling and unrepentant: "It didn't hurt anybody; it didn't affect anybody." Grant, a singer who went from croaking Frank Zappa to crooning Frank Sinatra: "We're not quite so trusting any more." The last and most poignant word goes to Lance...
...other Cambridge--the one in England--students adopt a different approach to the completion of the academic year. In contrast to Harvard students, who disappear to presumably greener pastures after handing in their final blue book the overseas Cantabrigians take some time off and linger around campus awaiting their exam results. The occasion, naturally is used as an excuse for widespread partying, a phenomenon which has attracted a fair degree of attention in certain international circles...
Remarkably few tears are shed in Sister Age, but those that fall linger in the memory. In Moment of Wisdom, a tired, frail old man, as "dry as a ditch weed," comes calling at the homestead outside Whittier with Bibles for sale. The twelve-year-old girl who answers the door refuses a Bible but offers a glass of water. As the old man walks away, the child is astonished to find her eyes filling up. She thinks: "If I could have given him something of mine . . . If I had next week's allowance and had not spent this...
...down-home wisdom and speaks to everybody as if he were their grandfather, clinched the James Watt Hole-in-the-Foot award by telling one of the students in the audience to "come back to me after you've survived a rape," to discuss women's issues. And Eloise Linger, the candidate for the Socialist Workers Party, proved exactly why socialists don't run cities by discussing El Salvador instead of Roxbury...