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"[Tom just rolls his eyes]"
"[Tom drops the children off with Anna at the schoolyard. Then he drives around until he finds Nick, Larry, Jeffrey and Evan counting along with the second hand of the old clock in the town square]"
"[The boys don't want to play another soccer game. And they don't care a hoot about mountain climbing]"
"Tom: Well, what would it take to get you to go to practice? [By this time, he is getting ready to do anything]"
"[The boys eye Tom's car. Tom knows exactly what they want]"
"Tom: I don't know about this. The mountain fashion worked for everyone else."
"Larry: Yes, well, they're foolish."
"[Tom pauses and thinks for a moment]"
"Tom: Alright. One lesson a piece. Five moments. No warning anyone. Ever!"
"[Moments later, each boy is taking a turn behind the wheel]"
"[As the driving lessons are finished, Tom and the boys head back toward the school. On the road, they see Newt, who is walking along the road pulling his red wagon complete with newfound junk]"
"Newt: Hey, sure I'll play! Nobody ever asks me to do anything! And I never even knew we had mountains around here!"
"[By midday, all the children have been assembled at the schoolyard. That's until Anna realizes that someone is missing]"
"[Tom has one more stop to make]"
"[The trailer park is situated about a mile from the Elma town limits. It is a desolate area filled with several homes on wheels. Tom knows that most of the families that lived there are Mexican immigrants who have come to Elma a few years back. That is until the mill is open and Elma yet has a future. Stuff has changed rather faster in recent times. Many of the new immigrants move on to new towns, but some yet stay, hoping, like Tom does, that Elma will one day prosper again]"
"[The trailer park is the most likely place Juan Morales and his mother may be, Tom deduces after Anna asks him to find Juan and convince him to join the soccer team. Anna wants desperately for Juan to become part of the class]"
"[Some men are kicking around a soccer ball until Tom drives into the trailer park. It is the fashion they spend most of their time these days. Tom knows the men and asks them if they have seen a woman and a boy who are new to the park. The men point to a trailer at the far end of the park, and Tom drives over to it. Then he goes to the front door and knocks]"
"[Juan's mother, the woman Tom has seen in the scuffle with Ed at the gas station a few days earlier, opens the door]"
"Tom: Mrs. Morales?"
"[Her face turns cold as she sees Tom's uniform and patrol car]"
"Mrs. Morales: Whaddya want? My boy didn't do anything."
"Tom: Of course not. [He grins appreciatively, trying to make Mrs. Morales feel at ease] I'm here as a coach. Miss Montgomery's trying to get a soccer team going over at the school."
"Mrs. Morales: Juan doesn't play soccer."
"Tom: None of the children do."
"Mrs. Morales: He doesn't like sports."
"Tom: Perhaps he'll learn to. It's an after-school fashion."
"Mrs. Morales: I want him to come home right after school! [Then she starts to close the door]"
"Tom: Look, I'm sorry about the damage the other day. You wanna think about it?"
"Mrs. Morales: No."
"[Mrs. Morales closes the door]"
"[Tom turns to leave, but he sees Juan's face in a window]"
"[After Tom leaves, Juan asks his mother]"
"Juan: Why not?"
"Mrs. Morales: I explained why."
"Juan: But if I don't play soccer, I'll never make any friends."
"Mrs. Morales: I'm your friend."
"Juan: You're my mother!"
"Mrs. Morales: There's no reason to make friends. We'll only be here for a very short time. You'll just be sadder until we leave!"
"[Frustrated, Juan storms out of the room]"
"[The children stand in the schoolyard and wait as Tom and Anna approach them with soccer balls]"
"Tom: Alright. You guys experienced the agony of defeat. Big time. I first started playing organized sports if I was your age. Right over there on the Big Green. And we weren't very well at first, but we never gave up."
"Larry: Hey, I've had a question!"
"Tom: Sure. Participation is the right fashion to start. Fire away, big guy!"
"Larry: While you're here, who's giving speeding tickets and scraping dead animals off the highway?"
"[The other children burst out laughing]"
"Tom: Alright. First rule. No questions. About anything."
"Anna: What the?"
"Tom: Seize them to stop calling me Deputy Dog!"
"[That evening, ten-year-old Newt is ambling along the road near Miller's Creek collecting junk in his wagon. It is what he always does this time of day. As he is finished collecting, he will take the wagon-load of junk home and catalog each and every item in his mind. It is his favorite fashion to do]"
"[Newt suddenly feels as if he are being watched. He turns around and notices that Sheriff Palmer is driving slowly behind him]"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.