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...first meeting with the guerrillas was very threatening," he recalls. "Later they would relax and sit down and talk. Your relations with them depended on whether they had found out anything bad about you. If they had, you would be shot. The first killings were private. Then they called in the whole village. Sometimes they would torture somebody in public; they had very long knives at the end of their guns. One day the guerrillas heard that someone had informed on a neighbor 14 years ago for stealing cattle from a European farm. The informant, an old man, was killed...
Down 6-2 at half-time, the Harvard team switched into gear for the second half and matched the Tigers goal for goal. But the Princeton defense refused to relax and allow Harvard to catch up. The Crimson could not find any way to move consistently by its opponents and instead found itself clogging up the area around the goalcage rather than spreading out and making the necessary passes...
...returned to America; it seemed that civilization had recaptured me. I had a nice comvinient life before me. Relax for once, after three brain-wracking years at school. Live in Cambridge, maybe have another baby, buy my furniture at Design Research, maybe write, maybe get a job. As I sat watching Picnic at Hanging Rock this future started to look very vapid. Those blue-green gum trees. Gates fastened with rusty coat hangers. That still clean land. I have to go back...
...Dolce Vita (1960), 8½(1963) and Amarcord(1915), as well as Francis Ford Coppola's two Godfather films. Prolific and inventive, Rota often wrote his scores before the director began shooting. Said he: "Music does not need to be hard to understand to be good. It should relax and entertain the audience -not torture them...
Within the White House they are counting heavily on what National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "the contagion of peace." If in these first shaky months, the new treaty takes hold and appears to be working for both nations, they may relax and be even more giving to ward each other. Better yet, the other Arab nations may, how ever reluctantly, decide to join the process. There is no question that Jimmy Carter's hand will be required from time to time; though not, he hopes, in the manner of Camp David or for shuttle diplomacy. But in extremis...