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...Southern racism. When King sent out his marchers, Connor had them mowed down by streams from fire hoses. Shocking news photos splashed across the pages of the world's press-of a young Negro sent sprawling by a jet of water, of a Negro woman pinioned to the sidewalk with a cop's knee at her throat, of police dogs lunging at fleeing Negroes...
Five members of the Seminar are discussing the afternoon's guest speaker, a well-known defense specialist, analyst of deterrents, calculator of the probability of war. The talk has continued for an hour on the brick sidewalk outside Holworthy Hall and shows no sign of abating...
...explains that his inspiration for this first novel was the question: "What would the American knight-errant be like and what would be his fate?" His answers seem to be Scandalous John's repeated cry, "I'm my own man," and his bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary code. It's probably just as well, in view of an alternative offered the hero along the way: a job developing a chimpanzee with a window in its stomach for use in aspirin commercials...
...Louvre or Westminster Abbey to others, concerns itself single-mindedly with practicalities -the cheapest ways of getting to Europe and moving around once there, how to rent a bicycle in Copenhagen, how to read a menu in Italian, how to see the most sights at least expense (a sidewalk cafe in Paris, folk dancing in Stockholm), and most important, a list of the most elusive of all things in a strange city-clean but cheap places to sleep...
...front of a pale green building on Honolulu's Kapiolani Boulevard one day last week, a band of ukuleles and a bass fiddle plunked out a rhythmic island tune. In the midday sun, languid, aloha-shirted islanders meandered back and forth along the sidewalk carrying their signs, pausing now and then for a swig of pineapple juice or to chat with a passerby. The occasion was neither a luau nor a festival, but the visible evidence of the first strike in more than 100 years of Hawaiian newspaper publishing history...