Word: runaways
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...book, soaked with desperate humor. It is a collection of short pieces, meditations on images in Cuban history, few of them more than a page long. Each vignette presents a static scene or a brief incident. For the colonial period, they describe engravings: conquistadores meeting Indians, bloodhounds catching a runaway slave. For modern times, many of them comment on photographs: a revolutionary commander, terrorists dead in a ditch. At worst, these pieces resemble Reader's Digest fillers, but at their best they are epiphanies...
...rights leader who won a world fame known to few blacks of his generation and spent his last years sick, half-forgotten and, in Coretta Scott King's words, "buried alive"; following a stroke; in Philadelphia. Robeson was the son of a Methodist minister who had been a runaway slave, and a nearly blind mother who died in a fire when he was six. After excelling at his local New Jersey high school, young Robeson won a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was valedictorian of the class of 1919 and became...
...bull market usually is characterized by a somewhat more cautious advance than the first, some analysts are predicting that the Dow Jones average could again test 1000 before year's end. Says Harold Jane way, a senior vice president of White, Weld & Co.: "We are not in a runaway bull market with all the speculative trimmings, but we certainly are in a positive environment...
...Carr sat heavily in his big leather chair behind his littered desk in the handsome office in downtown San Marco." If Buckley has written Frank Merriwell Joins the CIA, Lindsay's lumbering parable could be subtitled Seven Years in May. The time is the not too distant future. Runaway unemployment and racial strife have brought about two years of martial law in America. Before Congress is a "Special Powers" bill that will eliminate virtually all civil liberties. "There may be," a Justice Department official concedes, "a minor constitutional question about...
...after the Crimson's third runaway victory of the year, this time 8-1 over a top-heavy Army squad Saturday, the handwriting reads "Maybe." And that "Maybe" is not indelible...