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...tongue-in-cheek speech of the Oxford players is ubiquitous, even when talking to one another. A constant stream of jibes and dry remarks on a variety of topics is the norm. When asked what they thought of the people around Harvard, Bodgin replied, "Very pleasant." Reeve added his approval, saying, "Everyone seems to be neat and tidy." Crisp interjected, "What about that Buddhist fellow with the shaved head...
...ground; others had made little "houses" made from tomato stakes, sheets of plastic, and cardboard for the floor. There was a clearing where there were empty cans of soda, eggshells, and other "kitchen items". They bathed, washed their clothes and drank from the one stream nearby. There weren't any bathrooms, and you could come across human feces in the woods. Some people had just stretched sheets of plastic between two rows of tomatoes and slept there. At another ranch, the people we talked to had been promised work, but when they had arrived there was no work. The ones...
...Vance and Gromyko's most productive session to date, but their public statements were cautious, even cryptic. After one session, for instance, the Soviet diplomat said to newsmen at the State Department: "We have waded into the stream, but we haven't walked out of it yet because there are lots of rocks. I would like to urge all of you to display some patience." To which Vance added: "Until we get to the other side of the shore, I don't have much to say." At meeting's end, both sides sounded slightly more optimistic...
Every Friday thousands of natives stream out of the jungle to buy copies of Wantok (literally, "One Talk," but meaning people who speak the same language), a weekly publication in pidgin distributed by Papua New Guinea's Protestant and Catholic churches. Until 1972, many of the natives bought such publications only for the paper, which they used to roll their pungent plug tobacco. But then Wantok began carrying the adventures of the Phantom translated into pidgin. (Sample dialogue: "Fantom, yu pren tru bilong mi. Inap yu ken helpim mi nau?" Meaning: "Phantom, you are a true friend of mine...
With rhetoric once reserved for the likes of prostitution and child labor, America's often divided churches have united to assault a new public vice. "Television dumps into our homes a steady stream of illicit sex, casual violence, alcohol promotion, materialism, vulgarity," declared a resolution passed by 15,000 members attending the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The tough words are being backed by action, with the Baptists, and others, launching long-range educational programs and citizens' campaigns to clean...