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...immediately see a role for ourselves in the struggle. But suddenly, the American bombers whined over Hanoi and Haiphong and dumped death earthward while people bicycled below. We held a successful strike meeting, left our classrooms, and tried to blockade the Kennedy building yet another time. In the police wagon that took me to jail, I met a kid I had not seen since he graduated from my high school five years earlier...
...only a blue bathrobe, to their commandeered car. Horrified neighbors, driven back by gunfire that the men pumped steadily into nearby windows and cars, heard her screaming "Please not me, please!" before she was stuffed into the trunk of the car. Minutes later, the group transferred to a station wagon reportedly occupied by two other people...
...there is another truth, Singer approaches it gingerly and ambivalently. At the end of "On a Wagon," a character decides he "had to make a choice between God, Who may not exist, and creatures as loathsome as Mendele Shmeiser and his females," and he goes back to his yeshiva. But not all Singer's characters choose this way. Some of them choose the world, or try to change it--the anarchist in "Property," for instance, although he turns up later as a Miami Beach landlord, "fat and flabby...in shorts and a pink flowered shirt"--and Singer seems to think...
...dignity.One reason was that he wanted to make German folk songs popular again. "This has to go wrong," warned one when his boss, backed up by an orchestra and the Düsseldorf choir, boomed out the joys of galloping through the countryside on a jolly old yellow wagon...
...paper's civic pride can occasionally be cloying. It goes into annual paroxysms of praise over such events as the state fair and the Fourth of July circus wagon parade (sample lead: "The parade wasn't long and the route was short, but the enthusiasm . . . ). Although it does send reporters and editorial writers on international fact-finding tours, the paper's thrust is unabashedly local...