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...pride in their nation seemed clearer and surer than it has in a long time. This year the fireworks appeared to suggest a large and complicated and real sense of shared pleasure in the nation and what it represents. They shot up over New York harbor and the Washington Monument and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis and San Francisco and thousands of town squares and picnic grounds across the nation. The projectiles fired up and burst in the black summer night-magic bright sprays that looked like sudden sea anemones or supernovas, loud and martial with concussions...
...Washington Monument stood white above the deep summer green of the trees. Reagan squinted and smiled and soothed. "Scoop believed in arms control, but he refused to support any initiative that would not ensure the survival of the West." Remember that, fellow citizens, when you hear cries from the timid to rush to the table with the Soviets. "Scoop never stopped speaking out against anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union," said Reagan. "And he was never afraid to speak out against anti-Semitism at home. Scoop Jackson just would not be bullied." Let the people contemplate the Democrats' anguish...
...cabin near her home town of Ketchum, Idaho, spoke against a bill that would preserve only 526,000 of Idaho's 8 million acres of wilderness. Hemingway, 22, at first read calmly from her prepared statement, but broke down when she got to a quotation from a monument to her grandfather. As she had said earlier, "My testimony is from the heart...
Jabbar is a beautiful player. Too quick and agile to be so tall and angular, he seemed to have been designed originally as a natural monument to defiance, constructed out of high-tension wires, never to be touched. But his mettle must have softened over 15 seasons, or maybe some of the temper has just gone out of him. While Kareem still shoots and passes with grace and guile, he does not get his share of rebounds any more. On the worst basketball teams, the center is expected to do everything. On the best ones, he is required to rebound...
Somebody should remind President Ferdinand Marcos of this quote from Cato the Elder: "I would rather have men ask, after I am dead, why I have no monument than ask why I have...