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This continual counting and transfer of ballots-both for Council and school committee-goes on in an atmosphere somewhat akin to a blend of a ladies'coffee circle, Suffolk Downs, and Chapter 7 of The Last Hurrah...
...though Irish Playwright Thomas Murphy's play was produced four years before Pinter's. The brothers make passes at Michael's wife and even suggest using his home as a whorehouse. Michael is faced down, raged at and humiliated by his father, who is a perfect blend of aging bull and undiminished blarney. Michael's wife urges him to stand up for his rights. But he is paralyzed by a nagging sense of masculine inadequacy...
...some, the choice of campuses was a question of style. "I didn't really think that I was the Vassar type," says Wesleyan Junior Mark Merlis, an exchange student at Smith. He sees himself as "a male Julie Nixon" and thus feels that he will blend easily into the Smith ambience. For others, the choice reflected parental ambitions. Krisanne Warner, a dean's list student at Bucknell last year, reluctantly applied to Yale because her mother called it "the opportunity of the decade." Krisanne won admission to Yale-succeeding where both her father and brother had failed...
...Your unique blend of Biblical history and baseball is refreshing but obviously apocryphal. St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases, is more likely to show an avid interest in the Mets. On that great come-and-get-it-day, you will find that your "little team that can"-couldn't! Blessed are the Chicago Cubs for they shall inherit the East...
...performers filled the air with clangor. But as at Bethel, it was not just the music but the hordes of young spectators who made the spectacle-and the scene. The Now Sound had confirmed and amplified the Now Look, a bewildering compound of acid and sweet charity, an exuberant blend of innocence and togetherness.. En masse, the gaily bedecked faithful presented an unsettling aspect, a ragtag mosaic of humanity suggesting anything from the Children's Crusade to the Vandals sacking Rome...