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...elite groups, such as the boys' choir at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach once served as music director. State employees are expected to be atheists. Jobs in teaching, the courts, or the military are automatically out of bounds for believers. The historic Friedrichskirche, a squat brick church with pointed steeple that Frederick the Great built in Potsdam, seats 900 people, but no more than 150 parishioners attend Sunday services...
...appearance of his first true verse, "Digging." It announced, as William Butler Yeats announced in one of his own early works, that a vocation was being sought: "Living roots awaken in my head./ But I've no spade to follow.../ Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests./ I'll dig with...
Under construction since 1979 and now nearly four-fifths complete, the Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex (SLC 6),* dubbed "Slick Six," is a prodigious arrangement of lofty mobile towers and gaping tunnels, rugged bunkers and squat tanks, covering 150 acres...
Hidden on the outskirts of the Radcliffe Quad, beyond the route of the shuttle bus, lie two squat concrete structures which might escape notice altogether except for smells of dinner cooking which draw an influx of students around 5 p.m. each evening...
...salsa beat. And an aging slugger (Bernie Casey) awarded a "previously owned" pimpmobile on his appreciation day. And, of course, the curmudgeonly owner, played by Pat Corley, the scowling coroner from Hill Street, who describes his team as "a bunch of guys who ain't worth squat." For lagniappe, there is the team mascot, the Bluebird of Happiness (Marco Rodriguez), in the guise of a bargain-basement Big Bird...