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...says. Even back at Juilliard and later at the Marlboro Music Festival, he "acted crazy and silly." He would go to sleep on tables, get drunk, play pranks. The solution was, of all things, to be shipped off to Harvard. There, in addition to studying music, he could meander in and out of Dostoyevsky, sociobiology, German literature...
...Mountains loom, while before you in the distance tower the Abajo Mountains. Spread out below is an immense rock garden, burnished red and brown and buff. The sun bursts through the clouds, first lighting the Six-Shooter Peaks, then Cathedral Butte. The Colorado and Green rivers meander deep in the shadows, carving their signatures into the mesa with canyons 1,200 ft. deep. Five miles away, the joined rivers let out a thunderous roar, but up here all is silence. The space is awesome, the stillness complete, the solitude absolute...
...result is a bewildering googolplex of suits, countersuits, liens, writs, motions and applications that will probably meander through the courts for years...
When the dust had settled and the weary crowd at the finish line began to disperse and meander slowly back to their respective camps, Harvard stood alone with 25 points, their nearest competitor B.C. some 14 points behind...
...stories that follow meander from the bitter (a traveling folk singer who says, "All the things I remember have been torn away and replaced with bullshit") to the hopeful (a Black defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles who can't bring himself to hit the first successful Black quarterback). Just a list of the people Terkel talks to would make an interesting book: the president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the night watchman who discovered the Watergate break-in, a rebel United Mine Workers leader, a professional wrestling promoter, a retired president of a Chicago bank, an anti...