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...portable bleachers in left field had begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were the dugouts, rickety frame sheds resembling the busstop shelters put along rural roads for school children. When it was in use, the park was probably the very worst in organized baseball. But now it seemed even sadder, like a washed-up whore...
...questions are imaginative and provoking: Twice Borges exclaims, "I never thought of that" (a remarkable reaction from a man who seems to have thought of more than anyone else) and goes on to speculate on why verse is somehow sadder than a prose treatment of the same subject, and on what the opposite of a labyrinth (Borges' central metaphor) is. "Borges and Us" is a marked improvement over the days when Island editors asked Mary Poppins' creator, in issue number two, "First of all, Miss Travers, where were you born...
...Sadder but presumably wiser, Illinois' freshman Senator Charles Percy last week wrote to three Chicago friends: "It was a mistake on my part not to realize that your well-intentioned desire to help would be subject to misunderstanding and misinterpretation." With that, Chuck dissolved the controversial "Percy Group," a six-month-old fund-raising campaign intended to help the Senator defray his considerable office expenses...
...violence is inflicted on people of our cities, why the march to an ideal America has been interrupted by bloodshed and destruction." Trying to answer these questions, he said, would be his "saddest mission." Not to try, as Chairman Kerner and his commission of course knew, would be still sadder...
They will undoubtedly be sadder when they find out what is in store for them. The South Vietnamese government has never gone out of its way to be kind to refugees. In theory, they remain in such camps as Cua for no longer than two months, after which they are either allowed to return to their villages or moved to permanent resettlement villages to take up a normal life again. In practice, however, they are often left in temporary camps for three years or more, living on a bare subsistence diet handed out by the government and spending their interminable...