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...advance the "business of the liberal arts college." He raised faculty salaries 10% (enough to satisfy several would-be defectors), gave more students more scholarships, and started, far ahead of schedule, a long-range construction program, including a fine arts building and dorms. With the Ford grant as a catalyst, Cornell became a better school, faster...
REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. A raffish, gifted poet, who very much resembles Dylan Thomas, visits suburbia, proves to be a catalyst in combination with sex and liquor. The partying and the pratfalls are followed by a vintage De Vries hangover of brooding second thoughts about modern life...
Today's catalyst for sex, at least in urban communities, is the office girl, from head buyer to perky file clerk. To many men, the office remains a refuge from home, and to many girls a refuge from the eligible but sometimes dull young men they meet in the outside world. One of the difficulties of the office affair, except for those who relish intrigue for its own sake, is the problem of sheer logistics and security. Semipublic, semipermanent affairs are still not readily condoned-or perhaps even really enjoyed-in the U.S. American men seem to have decided...
...Paul Bowles). If, on the other hand, the blossoming of a long-repressed joie de vivre is the theme, then sunny Italy will unlock the passion in the tourist's heart (Goethe, Mann, E. M. Forster). But whoever would have thought of th Soviet Union as an emotional catalyst? Well, nobody, until British Satirist Anthony Burgess came along...
Texas. There is only one who is even in a position to try-the Governor. And though the Texas constitution severely limits his powers (the legislature only recently gave him a degree of control over the state budget), John Connally is determined to act as a catalyst for all of the various worlds of Texas. A blend of folksiness and sophistication, he seems singularly well-equipped for the attempt...