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Writing Cook. Because Roots is a black family reunion of sorts, Haley sees some distinct differences in why whites and blacks are so attracted by it. Discounting speculation that his work would unleash black rage, Haley says, "I've not heard one murmur of radicalization from blacks. I have heard ebullience and happiness that the story has been told. The blacks who are buying books are not buying them to go out and fight someone, but because they want to know who they are. Roots is all of our stories. It's the same for me or any black...
...SURPRISING THING about the student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is not that it may soon end, but that it has lasted so long. Most of the incendiary issues of the late 1960s and early '70s would today raise but a murmur of protest among a small handful of students. Issues like Harvard's involvement with the Defense Department or its alleged connections to the Central Intelligence Agency or the University's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil pale in most student minds when compared to problems like floaters or overcrowding in the Houses...
...screamed and struggled, though there seemed no escape from the grinning eminence I beheld. But soft! A look of confusion began to cross her scrambled features. Henry Jekyll once more! A little breathy murmur crossed her confused lips. "What say?" I called out, yearning to catch her drift. "Don't use that dumb hippie expression with me!" she roared, the phlegm rumbling in her throat. "I forgot what to do next! I forgot the next move!" She began lumbering around the room knocking over bookcases and smashing her rare collection of African fertility statuettes which bore an eerie resemblance...
...sales; sex became more blatant and the advertising industry naturally kept pace. Now that a kiss usually promises more than a kiss, we have advertisements for women's clothing that wink slyly, "What to wear on Sunday when you won't be home till Monday," and underwear ads that murmur, "You owe it to your audience." And we have a new movie about a top fashion model who sells lipstick so seductively that she is brutally raped by a young man who takes her lip-smacking photographs to heart...
...tropical rain storm wailed through the rafters of the air-conditioned coliseum in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico as the Classics, Harvard's self-styled "vagabonding basketeers" took to the floor, undaunted by the murmur of a capacity crowd and the steady woosh emanating from the opposite end of the court as the Puerto Rican national team ran through a dunking drill...