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...well, but so well that he can't resist editorializing about each sight. Few are spared as Galbraith talks about the Pentagon ("Were [the Crusades] under the auspices of the Pentagon, it would still be heard that, in the Holy Land, there was light at the end of the tunnel"); conferences of revolutionaries ("By occuring, they persuade the participants, and often others, that something is happening when nothing is happening or can happen."); the Bay of Pigs ("not since Joshua's trumpets at Jericho had there been a military operation in which there was so little rational expectation of success...
...invaded so silently and surreptitiously that most Americans are not even aware of it. The invaders come by land, sea and air. They fly commercial and private aircraft; they jump ship or sail their own boats; they scale mountains and swim rivers. Some have crawled through a mile-long tunnel; others have squeezed through the San Antonio sewerage system. No commandos or assault troops have shown more ingenuity and determination in storming a country that tries to keep them out. They are the illegal immigrants who come not to destroy but to enjoy the blessings of the most prosperous nation...
...yard 11th hole, in which a rocky gully traverses the fairway, was transformed into a miniature wind tunnel yesterday. Unable to keep from swaying at address, Vik took a swat at his ball while striding up to it. The result was a smoother hook that carried some 50 yards. After that, Vik hit his driver off the fairway followed by a 3-wood, but was still shy of the green...
...differentiation from square to square. The show includes these works called "Homage to the Square", but it features more prominently his "Mitered Squares" done in the last two years of his life. Again using subtle coloring and precise geometric figures, Albers creates in this series of prints an optical tunnel with clever interaction of color...
Dame said that earlier schemes did not include the tunnel under Mass Ave, and that planners included it at the request of Harvard community affairs officials...