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Pina greets her visitor at the railroad station, and they exchange names in embarrassed mumbles. Back home, Pina shyly displays a tacky, bricabracky cottage and the inevitable pets: a dopey turtle that scrapes tediously around the living room, a hoarse parrot that mindlessly advises visitors to "take a blue crayon and color the sky." Then she lays a few cards on the table: she works in a feed store, owns her house outright, has 200,000 lire in the bank. Adolfo follows suit: he works in a bookstore and is dead broke...
...Adams campaign can claim one major accomplishment. It has forced Collins and Peabody to accept Vietnam as the most important issue. Probably Collins's attempts to avoid outright support for the Administration line are traceable to the Adams candidacy. Peabody, however, continues to parrot each morning's White House press release...
Lewis' disaffection is plainly a result of S.N.C.C.'s new militancy. He has refused to parrot the black-power line, explaining: "I'm not prepared to give up my personal commitment to nonviolence." He argues that the Mississippi march, which Carmichael tried to dominate, may have done the civil rights cause more harm than good...
...individuality of the physician should be preserved. As an educated man he sould be critical and willing to express his personal views and not simply parrot the party line of his professional group. It is curious that at a time when medicine is thought to be one of the few remaining vocations which emphasizes the importance of the individual that in fact the physican is firmly bound by the convention of his profession...
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