1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"Russell: In looking at the issues of this primary in New Hampshire, journalists and politicians have sensed the presence of a phenomenon which may be more important than any of the normal issues of a presidential campaign. It is most difficult to articulate this phenomenon. Its name seems to be just beyond the tip of the tongue, but the symptoms of the malaise are clear enough."

-- "Listening to America: 25 Years in the Life of a Nation, as Heard on National Public Radio" ed. by Linda Wertheimer

The snippet is talking about the 1972 NH Primary....