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...Stolen Thunder. The change profoundly affects California's 46 teacher-training institutions, which have to get more academic or practically go out of business. Also affected: many education schools in other states, which supply nearly one-third of California's new teachers. California itself may be in for initial trouble: a shortage of teachers able to meet the new standards...
With her Young Communist training, Janet conducted cell meetings on Communist ideology. She helped organize Cheddi's following into his People's Progressive Party, now runs it as secretary-general and edits the party's Red-lining paper called Thunder. Associates are called "comrade," and last year she spent three weeks in East Berlin, Moscow and Peking talking trade and spreading the word about what was going on in British Guiana...
Cassius Clay is Hercules, struggling through the twelve labors. He is Jason, chasing the Golden Fleece. He is Galahad, Cyrano, D'Artagnan. When he scowls, strong men shudder, and when he smiles, women swoon. The mysteries of the universe are his Tinker Toys. He rattles the thunder and looses the lightning. "I was marked," he says. "I had a big head, and I looked like Joe Louis in my cradle. People said so. One day I threw my first punch and hit my mother right in the teeth and knocked one out. If you don't believe...
...with all the skill of a master draftsman. Gradually, Broderson came to "dislike perfect bodies.'' His figures became a play of shadow and form-squat, ghostly figures that can be taken as universal symbols suggesting anything from the innocence of a child's puppet to the thunder of an ancient god. For a while, they held the stage with nothing in the background, but over the years, Broderson's compositions have grown increasingly complex. They are the result of innumerable sketches, worked and reworked until the final structure, often an almost archaic architecture, is just right...
...first flush of mutual admiration survived despite (or because of) 20 years' separation. In the 1950s, Durrell is still telling Miller that he will be "the homegrown doyen of Yankee litcheratewer yet, mark my word," that "the surf-thunder of your prose is the biggest experience of my inner man." But Durrell is also warning: "Beware of cowboy evangelism and Loving Everything and Everybody Everywhere! Or you'll be doing a Carl Sandburg with a portable harp...