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...wreck of the Confederate capital." As one young lieutenant observed, "There were very few women on these trains, but among the last in the long procession were trains bearing indiscriminate cargoes of men and things. In one car was a cage with an African parrot and a box of tame squirrels and a hunchback! Everybody, not excepting the parrot, was wrought up to a pitch of intense excitement." As the Confederacy was closing down, a woman diarist wrote in wonderful magnolia prose: "There they go, the gay and gallant few, the last flower of Southern manhood...
...year old wolf was tame, but it scared shit out of the Secret Service agents assigned to keep an eye on the demonstrator. Harris, wearing a placard that said "wolves are better wild than worn," told interested passersby that the wolf is an endangered species. The economic incentive for killing wolves (a single pelt brings about $200 from clothing manufacturers) must be ended, he said...
Roth got his second goal of the game with assists going to Eddie Rossi and Dave Gauthier at 5:07 of the final period, and school was out for the tame Big Green. Dartmouth got one last goal, on a power play with 10 seconds left, for the 4-2 final...
Meticulous Revival. Tame stuff, until the audience realizes that this is a fantasy of wish fulfillment. The Millers are the family O'Neill would have preferred to those refugees from the House of Atreus with whom he was actually saddled. Throughout the play there are wood-notes of despair that provide a counterpoint, hinting that the Millers have within them the same talent for self-destruction as the Tyrones of O'Neill's autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night. With bad luck, comforting Mother Essie might become junkie Mary Tyrone; responsible Father Nat could turn...
Down yonder in Washington, President Ford has assembled over 700 of the nation's top economists to argue with presidential advisers over the best way to tame run-a-way inflation and bring the economy back into whack. And here in Cambridge, President Bok and the alumni fund-raisers for the Harvard College Fund will spend much of their 13th annual assembly brooding over what they will do in the coming year if Ford's crew continues to fail...