Word: shepherded
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...villagers in Ramparts of Clay, yesterday, today and tomorrow are one. The muezzin's chant, the shepherd's flock, the inexorable rhythms of the desert-all seem to have been delivered whole from the verses of the Koran. In Director Jean-Louis Bertucelli's first feature, that isolation has the dimension of tragedy. Though France has granted Tunisia her independence and social change has been promised, the citizenry are still degraded, the colonial mind is still at work...
...Harvard, Dave Scanlon will be wrestling at 190, although his injured knee is not completely healed. Harvard's lineup will stay the same otherwise, except at 198 where Lee has not yet decided whether to start regular Colin Mangrum or Dean Shepherd, who is returning to the team after taking a semester...
...night watchmen in Quincy spends a good part of his time trying to force outside a German Shepherd stray which has recently made Quincy his home. The dog, named Woof by a few students, is well trained and extremely friendly, and now he's afraid to leave the courtyard. Any move by the superintendent or his staff to get rid of Woof is not going to make him very popular with the rest of the House, which has started providing for his needs...
Cronkite describing points of interest at national parks and historic and military shrines. For the nervous city dweller, Leisure Data Inc. of Manhattan offers 20 minutes of the barks and snarls of an extremely annoyed German shepherd. The tape is designed to be turned on when a potential intruder nears. Time-Life Audio is preparing a new monthly "cassette magazine" called The Executive Voice, containing interviews with top business leaders, which will be available to subscribers for $80 a year...
...word, which suggests growth rather than knavery, often proved accurate enough to describe his shifts in policy. During his 35 years in the House and Senate, Dirksen was isolationist, internationalist, champion of Joe McCarthy, internationalist again, antiwar critic (Korea), apologist for war (Viet Nam), Goldwaterite, and finally, an improbable shepherd of nearly all the major civil rights legislation of the '60s. Toward the end of his life-he died in 1969-it began to seem that Dirksen's most interesting achievement was himself: a rumpled travesty of Throttlebottom, Pekin, Ill., Polonius wreathed in consciously self-mocking fustian...