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...marchers off. Next day, the cops rushed a group standing on a porch, clubbed some Negroes, grabbed a white man, throttled him with a billy club, kicked and beat him till blood gushed from his wounds. A day later, Negro youngsters again moved down the street in ones and twos, carrying tiny American flags (it was Flag Day). They, too, were blocked by police, relieved of their flags, and carried off to a hog-wire compound...
Fours on Frenchies, please. Twos on threes...
...last, after two weeks, the tunnel had reached a clump of bushes 90 ft. away in West Berlin's French sector. In ones and twos, the families who were in on the plan slipped into the house and gathered in the tiny cellar. There were 28 people, including three children and one half-paralyzed woman of 71. Each was allowed to carry one parcel; a pet dog had to be left behind for fear it would bark and give the plan away. When everything was ready, one man crawled through to see if the coast was clear...
Copland's rhythms are especially infectious in this piece. His opposition of twos and threes is delightful, and his alternation of various triple meters gives a lively, invigorating style. His writing progresses with a natural is beautifully tuned to what man ear enjoys--a principle serialists such as Ernest suspect so highly...
Ever since Tibet's brave but abortive revolt against Red China in 1959, refugees have straggled across the border into India by twos and threes. Last month they came by the scores and even the hundreds. They were driven by hunger. The Chinese Communists have brought something Tibet has not known within living memory: famine...