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Their green stems were waving, gently; and their cheerful bubbles of sweet bright colors danced around. Then suddenly they were all uprooted. She wanted to scream. They were uprooted, and sterilized, and embalmed in plastic. Hard in their loveliness; ruthless dancers swirling around her.

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

Last Monday night Psalms for Two Davids was set for dress rehearsal and the Loeb seemed upside-down. There was no elevated stage, and a slice of seats had been uprooted and transplanted to the other side, facing opposite. For the first time in over ten years (apparently) a Loeb...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Slouching Toward Jerusalem | 3/22/1973 | See Source »

There are those who still think that the orphaned moments of Nixon's past will catch up with him. They see the meaningful men of history rising from identifiable sources and building their purposes and characters on fixed principles that, even when bent along the way, tend to endure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Outracing the Past | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

AFTER a quarter-century of war, Viet Nam confronts problems of such magnitude that they seem insurmountable. The area has been ravaged by 15 million tons of explosives, more than were used by U.S. forces in all of World War II.* Of this total, almost 80% has been inflicted on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The Future of Viet Nam | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

LAST BOOKS READ: Script for the screen version of Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Primate Behavior of the Uprooted by Irwin DeVore and Oscar Handlin, and We Love You Bruins.

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Dake It Or Leave It | 10/21/1972 | See Source »

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