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...rich kid's road map...
When the city of New York issued its visitors' map of points of interest in the early 1960s, the Brooklyn Academy of Music was nowhere to be found. Never mind that it is New York's oldest performing arts complex, founded in 1861. No matter that in its first golden age its stages presented Sarah Bernhardt in Camille, Admiral Peary showing lantern slides of his discovery of the North Pole, Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan and Enrico Caruso giving one of his final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt...
...hailed him from the shore. "They said they were fighting for secession from the Philippines," he reports, "but they had a novel alternative to independence: they wanted to be taken over by the U.S. and imagined that I had been granted Kissingeresque powers to rearrange national sovereignties on the map of Asia." Aikman posed with the villagers for a high school-type photo and exited gracefully. In Uganda, Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs momentarily forgot his manners when President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada admired his necktie. "I should have remembered," confesses Griggs, "that when a Moslem admires something...
Pearcy has drawn up a map of the 38 states, which he has given poetically apt new names and boundaries that cut across existing state lines. The new state of Bitterroot, for instance, named for a local mountain range, takes in most of Idaho, slices of Oregon, Montana, Washington and northwest Wyoming. Cochise unites major portions of Arizona and New Mexico. Plymouth embraces the city of Boston, the eastern portion of Massachusetts, and part of New Hampshire. New York City and environs would become the state of Hudson, and Alamo on the map is basically Texas without the panhandle. Under...
...prospers, moving from sodhouse to log cabin, to frame house, and finally to a fine big farmhouse dress in fresh paint. Along the way he loses his wife, his brother, and finally the memory of why he came. He cannot find his home county in Sweden on a map. His children cannot speak Swedish. In gaining America he has lost something deeper within himself...