Rising To Great Heights

There is, though, a consonance between Moses and Retton and with the nation that they represented at the Olympic Games. He's a child of Africa, she of Europe (Rotunda was the apt, pre-Anglicized Italian family name); both grew up in the heartland and now work in the Sun Belt; the two of them have been further nurtured by our newest immigrants—her coach, his wife. The American saga is renewed, the American wave rolls.