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...bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more powerful. There was now a final tally; most of the 230 readers had friends or kin among the dead, and a complicated sadness had replaced the agitprop bitterness of November 1969. David DeChant, 35, a former Marine Corps sergeant who spent 31 months in Viet Nam, started with the A's: "David Aasen, Jose Abara, Richard Abbate . . ." The spare eulogy took the better part of three days, 1,000 names an hour, with only a few hours respite each morning. One reader was Caroline Baum, 26, a Quaker from...
...something," said Sergeant L.P. Eckert, "and sure enough it was the bear." The animal, which disappeared again, was Boo-Boo, the 20-month-old, 250-lb. black bear cub that belongs to Broadcaster-Sportsman Ted Turner, 43. Boo-Boo had escaped from the pen she shares with Yogi, the other bear that Turner keeps for his children on their 5,000-acre South Carolina plantation. Away on business, Turner has missed the ensuing ten-day bear hunt, which by week's end had resulted in only two uneventful sightings. Says Johnny Godley, Turner's plantation manager, about...
...Alan Sergeant...
...characters in Nebraska endure further hardships, and each receives fair treatment from Springsteen's restrained guitar, wailing harmonica and moaning, groaning vocals. "Highway Patrolman" is a story narrated by one Sergeant Joe Roberts who maintains a close relationship to a no-good brother. Two other characters end their stories with a similar, pathetic command directed at no one in particular: "...deliver me from nowhere...
...took a Paideia seminar with Mortimer Adler last spring. Rather than a "first among equals," he was a bombastic drill sergeant, more devoted to playing "Guess My Interpretation" than to the discussion and evaluation of student ideas...