Regis College - Mount Regis Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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TIME’S OPEN DOOR And an American time capsule was sent into space with the Columbia shuttle . . . . . . and a new door was opened . . . . . . while meanwhile back home . . . windows were being shattered Martial law was issued in Poland, an Argentine attack on the British Crown erupted in the Falklands, and the modern day shot that was heard around the world echoed in the cries of a fallen Beirut . . . . . . and universal tears were shed in imagining all the people who died and suffered at the hands of a lonely and desperate humanity: as Sadat watched Johnny come marching home, the shouts and screams of an execution squad’s hostility silenced his quest for harmony; and thousands of miles away, the man of peace and love who wore the shoes of the fisherman was senselessly shot at in Vatican City; and with a friendly wave in the midst of a maddening crowd, the new hope of America was weakened on a cold March morning-as Nancy wept for Reagen, Hinckley obsessively cried for Jodie; and in a southern metropolis, the black child was enslaved to a cold death in the country’s horror of racial injustice; and as hemlock was administered to the American public, simple headaches were turned into violent deaths; and John was just watching the wheels go round and round until Chapman ended his merry-go-round of life, and ended our loving union with the dreamer . . . . . . but within the darkness came the light . . . . windows were opened onto a promising horizon . . . with the changing of the guard in the Oval Office, the 52 ransomed heroes and heroines were finally brought home; and in the country of pomp and circum- stances, as the entire world watched, the royal fairy tale came true when Charles and Lady Di simply said “I do”; and back in the kingdom of Port Charles, 8