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...surplus Hill police made sure that student lobbyists crossed Constitution Ave. between the white lines. One policeman threatened to arrest a Radcliffe student for leaning against a Rayburn Building wall while waiting for the visitors' cafeteria to open...
...clergyman--one of 300 members of Concerned Clergy and Laity (CCL) lobbying in Washington--was waiting with a group of friends. "Move along now move right along," a policeman said, waving his arms at the line. "Mooooooo, mooooooo", responded the clergyman as he complacently ambled down the hall...
...Governor, and it's being returned today." Riposted Curtis: "It's amazing that in the middle of a national crisis, the Vice President would have time to even think about returning a bedspread to someone who never sent it in the first place." Eventually a retired Lewiston policeman, A.J. (Tony) Petropulos, 89, said that he, for one, had given Mr. Agnew a bedspread and was surprised not to have received an acknowledgment. Mr. Agnew can rest easy under Mr. Petropulos' coverlet-he is a loyal Republican...
Jepsen cannot be sure what "they" expect from him, either. He is guided by his sense of what a loyal policeman should do and think. When the ugliness of events looms before him, he shuts his eyes and keeps on working. He lacks the humanity of Nansen, who agrees to hide the deserter Klaas from the Gestapo. The painter quickly abandons generalities when he is confronted by a contradictory reality. Although Nansen joined the Nazis when the Party was still a small band of loudmouthed chauvinists, he rejects the National Socialist State just as everybody begins to cheer it, because...
...exceptional man, the artist of whatever profession who can see through the lies, resists. The rest follow. And even Nansen turns his eyes from the central horror. When the breeze wafts the black smoke of the death camp ovens towards the small town where the painter and the policeman live, the two men have lies to blow the smoke away: "the Dutch are burning peat, they said, and their minds were at rest...