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...feel part of a tradition? I think any writer to some extent inherits the mid-nineteenth century New Englanders--I think we all benefit from Emerson's marvelous sense of what an American is, from Melville's superb thunder, from Thoreau's jackal and all that...
...foothills of Lebanon's Mount Hermon last week, the quiet of almond-blossom time was shattered by the whine of jets, the clatter of tank treads and the thunder of explosions. Israel continued its attacks on Palestinian guerrilla bases inside Lebanon (TIME, March 6), and the fighting there indirectly led to a skirmish on the Syrian border and at least temporarily deprived the fedayeen of one more base of operation against Israel...
...suddenly, like thunder...
Stage, you gave me the light in which to scintillate but took away the soft shadow and the subtle gleam...I was painting great placards, rationalizing slyly that a watercolor can hardly be seen in a large hall...I began to cherish not quietness-- but thunder, and when you do this it is easy to go wrong. --Yevgeny Yevtushenko, from "The Stage...
Harvard looked particularly sick in the final period, throwing away another man-up opportunity without getting off one good shot. B.U. iced the game at 11:10, as Thunder Thornton knocked in a rebound of a long Anderson slapshot to finish off a fast break. B.U.'s power play humiliated the Crimson again at 13:03, with tournament MVP Danby picking up his second goal after walking through the Harvard defense and casually flipping a backhander past Bertagna...