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...president one moment turn your sight. Ensconced in deepest labor within Massachusetts Hall He stares at open letters, then stares long at the wall. The radicals are in Law School, divestiture is dead, Christmas is approaching, and Bok should be abed. He struggles against sleepiness, he fumbles for a pen He picks his head up off the desk and down it falls again...
...PARTY IS GROWING by leaps and bounds--Joe Restic has arrived, With Martin Kilson, Laurence Tribe, Yen-Tsai Feng and John Clive. A wave of the pen towards Douglas Marlette, Victor Kohutka and John Jenrette. A garland of holly for Stanislaw Baranczak, For William F. Buckley and also Burt Bachrach. In Cambridge we drink to the Sullivans' city--David's, Walter's, James's, and Al Vellucci's. Bottle upon bottle, we'll uncork the Veuve Clicquot And raise our glasses in the air for everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese...
...Kill..." was too much for me. I grabbed my empty bucket and half-rinsed brush and began splattering watered-down white paint onto the walls, but was disappointed because the paint didn't fully cover the writings. I took out my pen and wrote something...
...more than the address and the salutation were constant in the letters. Ratliff's style never changed--a bare-bones prose that results, he says, from long hours of thinking before he puts pen to paper. "I read the news, and then I try to let it sift through my mental passages, so I can boil it down...People are not going to read long drawn-out writings," the University of Texas graduate says, adding that his models of clarity include Bertrand Russell, Leo Tolstoy and the King James Bible. All the letters are written early in the morning...
...Royals' bull pen, on the other hand, proved incapable of stemming the Phillies' late-innings tide. To add insult to ineffectiveness, Kansas City's bull pen was turned into a menagerie in the final game. Philadelphia's Finest stored police dogs in the Royals' left-field enclosure, and Reliever Marty Pattin had to ease his way past a posse of horses when he came on to pitch in the fifth inning. Said Pattin: "I thought we had a zoo out there. The dogs were excited by the crowd, and they were barking and carrying...