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...still be able to fill in the right little boxes." That reaction was part of a growing feeling that she spent her time "Supplying the appropriate responses to everything:" she felt a need to plan something to "get me out of this upper-middle-class intellectual rut I've been traveling in for 21 years...
...like skiing in a toboggan run," recalled Klaussen. "You pointed your skis downhill and tried to stay in the center of the rut...
...endless sky, with gophers and prairie dogs scampering across the two-lane road and magpies fluttering overhead. Go down into southeastern Utah and head toward Moab. Take a right at the entrance to Canyonlands National Park and proceed along the paved road until it turns into a red clay rut. You are going along at 30 miles an hour, then 20, then 15. The road dips and rises, twists and turns. The car clatters, the body shakes. Finally, Grand View Point comes in sight. Walk to the edge, 6,000 ft. above sea level. To the northeast...
That is unlikely to happen. Erratic as it has been at times, the new government enjoys wide support among those who feel that only decisive military rule can get Liberia out of its rut. Says James Tarpah, vice president of the University of Liberia: "The issue is not whether they go back to the barracks, but whether they can provide the leadership for much-needed change. That is a shock treatment that may be easier to accomplish by decree than by voting." It seems for now a sentiment that most Liberians endorse...
That millions of Americans can be mesmerized by such trivia as Dallas only proves that the average American seeks excitement by means of the tube, rather than by making an effort to raise his life out of the rut of bland mediocrity...