"A lot of the national directives they instructed us to put in place would stay.
"When some R.S.S. activists came home, they instructed us to remove our footwear outside the house," he said.
In Akron "all the most important, most endangered buildings, they instructed us not to list," he said.
They wore white lab coats and carried clipboards as they instructed us to examine poems by William Carlos Williams as if they were patients in need of care.
We learned through Dr. King to refer to our darker-skinned friends as Negro; and then as they grew Afros and donned dashikis, they instructed us to call them Black.
Actually when I worked at a department store as a teenager they instructed us to make an announcement to security if two or three black males came in together.
"There's no question in my mind the players are unified, that if this deal and this is the best deal they can get, they've instructed us that they're prepared to sit out," he said.
"If I was a superannuation fund manager I would wonder how long it would be before they start instructing us where we should invest our money".
Not content with going from Lee Trevino to Liberace inside three minutes (the strict time limit for all Eurovision songs), they also instructed us to "Get up and dance to our Eastern European kinda funk!" How sad that "kinda" sounds to wiser ears.
It's even possible to see in the silly little truisms passed on to me — old versus young, employed versus unemployed — that the veterans were really suggesting something more troubling: that they were instructing us in code to do what the Constitution forbids.
