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Rats are the easiest to work with. For Willard, Di Sesso trained them to run toward their food, mostly peanut butter, at the sound of a beeper. When it came time for the rats to start munching on Star Ernest Borgnine, who was smeared with peanut butter, they were even polite enough to stop with the peanut butter. The rabbits, by contrast, appear never to have heard of Pavlov. "We trained them in California to associate food with clicking sounds, so that they would head in any direction you clicked from," says Lepus Producer A.C. Lyles. "When...
...formulate, the young legions this year shattered political assumptions and shut down party machines that had been grinding on for decades. Through New Hampshire's bitter months, through the endlessly tedious precinct caucuses and state conventions, they mimeographed and telephoned and pounded door to door, living on peanut butter and jelly and spending their nights in sleeping bags on someone else's living-room floor. Their numbers grew with success; duty became dream became destiny; the impossible turned possible turned probable. Often with scant direction or help from the candidate himself, they built from the ground...
...interior of Massachusetts Hall was clean and in good order. There was no evidence that the 40 occupiers inside had tampered with any of the University's files and records. Garbage had been regularly collected and stuffed in plastic trash bags. Loaves of bread, jars of peanut butter and jam, and cans of coffee and tea were neatly stacked in the occupation storeroom, and the long hallway on the second floor was swept clean...
Even before he goes, he tries hard to shed his illusions about heroic sacrifice for the cause; he has to shed a lot more in the Georgia sun when the activity of his life is reduced to weeding a 72-acre peanut field for several weeks while his world stands still, and the leadership of New Communities Inc.--the black cooperative organization--engages in personal haggling while trying to keep the farm from going under completely. There weren't many sources of relief from the tedium of work for either the sharecroppers or their student allies. After his first Sunday...
...mistrust the community leader who uses the faith-healer approach to woo black support and who, at the same time, openly scorns the liberal-white college kids he'd invited to Georgia. And he learns to feel angry that some of his fellow brigade-members, thinking the peanut-weeding an inessential if not useless task, beg off from weeding and make busy work fixing meals and getting mail while the rest stays in the fields. Through the disillusionment, experience, and glimmerings of understanding. Jeff Golden changes--not utterly, not even radically, perhaps, but importantly. He is continuously testing things like...