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...father of one boy I know works as a janitor in an office complex. He works for ten, sometimes for fifteen hours, every day. His work is in an unseen "second basement" underneath the "regular" sub-basement of the tallest skyscraper in Boston. He works so many deep and sunless meters underneath the level of the lobby floor, that he is even underneath the level of the turnpike that runs underneath the building. I talk with him often in the evening hours after he returns from work: coated with dirt and broken with exhaustion. This man, 56 years...
...father lifts his son's broken body and wails to the sunless Brittany sky. The cry congeals into a vow that propels an impeccable thriller, This Man Must...
...early afternoon it was cold and sunless. A very light, raw rain began to wash over Yale's gray stone. I walked down Broadway, the slightly sleezier, more tightly jammed Mass. Ave. of New Haven. Down Elm Street to the Old Campus where the freshmen live and where several coed games of frisbee and touch football dotted the quad. All over the campus there was something giddy in the air--like a giant joke that everyone was in on. Lots of smiling went on. People smiled at each other on the street and said hello for no reason. One ecstatic...
Every morning 10,000 men of Harvard stumble from sunless rooms to breakfast. Check in, take a tray, grab utensils, receive food. How neat, and how impersonal. And yet some pleasures remain. Every serving lady knows me and I know each and all of them. We're great friends...
...never plumbed a cave? Travel agents, that's who. What's more, they're doing something about it. This year Academy Travel Ltd. will assemble an exclusive and hardy band of spelunkers in London, collect $195 a head, and lead them off on a somewhat sunless 15-day crawl through the caves of Rumania. In New York, Lindblad Travel Inc. has plans afoot for a special breeders' browse through European hogdom's foremost farms - a follow-up to earlier, highly successful cattle and hog breeders' tours...